Balesh Dhankhar found guilty of 36 charges including rape

SYDNEY, 24 April 2023: Bhalesh Singh Dhankhar, Ex National President, OFBJP Australia,  has been found guilty of drugging, raping and recording five Korean women in Sydney. Dhankhar cried on Monday (24 April 2023) as the jury foreman replied “guilty” to each of the 39 charges against him. The charges were 6 x Administering intoxicating substance with intent to commit an indictable offence, namely sexual intercourse without consent, 13 x Sexual intercourse without consent, 3 x Indecent assault and 17 of recording intimate images without consent. These charges were confirmed by the Crown Prosecution media to South Asia Times (SAT) in a email on 16 March 2023. The accused now found guilty contested the charges.

The OFBJP on 17 March, 2023 Tweeted, ” Balesh Dhankar has resigned from OFBJP Australia in July 2018. We strongly condemn his actions and he must face full force of law.”

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) today has reported the guilty verdict. It said, ” A District Court jury in Sydney’s Downing Centre on Monday found the politically connected predator lured five women into a web of lies, paralysed them with drugs and hoarded trophies of his callous assaults.

But the verdict could only come after Dhankhar forced those women to face gruelling cross-examination in court, and condemned the jury to watch traumatic recordings of his attacks.”

The SMH said, ” Dhankhar recorded his sexual assaults using a camera hidden in his bedside alarm clock and on his phone.The contents of the videos are too confronting to describe in detail. The jury writhed as they watched the videos. At one stage it became too much and they asked to be sent home early. Judge Michael King appeared sympathetic. Prosecutors and court staff, moments later, spilled into the hallways of the court. Some had red eyes, others were shaking. Dhankhar was impassive.