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Indian national jailed for rape of Oz university student | An Australian Court has sentenced an Indian national Harjot Hundal Singh for 13 years for raping a young university student in Melbourne. Singh (27) abducted
his victim while she was walking home from Springvale railway station, in Melbourne
's south-east, on June 18 last year. He claimed that he raped the woman because
of his "pent-up anger" towards his mother and wife He was arrested at Melbourne
airport a few days after the incident while trying to flee to Dubai and had a
connecting ticket to India . Singh grabbed the woman, an international university
student, from behind and dragged her into the back of a work van before tying
her arms together and raping her, The Age reports. Judge Marilyn Harbison said
Singh told his victim to "stop shouting otherwise I will kill you with a knife".
Singh also squeezed the woman's throat so hard she thought she was going to die
and dumped his victim in an unknown location close to the station and drove off.
Singh, who arrived in Australia on a spousal visa in 2008, would be at risk of
reoffending if not properly treated in prison, Judge Harbison said. Crown prosecutor
Ray Gibson had called for a maximum term of between 12 and 14 years and a minimum
of between nine and 12 years. He said the offending act could be described as
"every woman's nightmare". |
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