A 44-year-old chef from India has been sentenced to a few months and 4 weeks’ jail for molesting two teenage women in Singapore

Sushil Kumar pleaded responsible to 2 expenses of molesting the victims, reported TODAY newspaper on Friday.

Just about three months after he first molested a teenage woman in broad daylight close to a subway prepare station, he focused one other woman whom he touched with out consent and declared his “love” for her despite the fact that she didn’t know him.

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On each events, Kumar spent an inordinate period of time hugging, kissing or touching the ladies.

The court docket heard that on the afternoon of August 2 final yr, the sufferer, who was 14 years outdated then, was strolling house from Boon Keng prepare station when Kumar stopped in entrance of her to talk to her.

Unable to know him, the sufferer thought that he was asking her for instructions to the station.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Delicia Tan mentioned the woman pointed in direction of the station and the convict responded by wrapping his arms round her shoulders and coming into physique contact along with her with out her consent.

He additionally kissed the woman on her proper cheek. Kumar then requested her for her cell phone quantity and saved it. He then hugged the woman once more and kissed her proper cheek a number of occasions.

He later used his cell phone to take a lot of “selfie” images of him and the woman. Kumar even requested if she needed to eat with him however the woman mentioned she wanted to return house.

He hugged and kissed her cheek once more for an additional one to 2 minutes earlier than telling her that she might name him if she wanted cash.

After he walked away, the woman ran house and instructed her mom concerning the incident. A police report was made that night.

Investigations later revealed that after this encounter, Kumar despatched two textual content messages by means of WhatsApp to the woman, tried to video-call her twice and despatched her one other textual content message containing two emojis of which one was blowing a kiss.

Kumar was arrested the following day and launched on station bail a day later.

A number of months afterward the night of November 8, a 19-year-old was ready on the elevate foyer of a housing block when Kumar meant to outrage her modesty instantly touched {the teenager}’s arm together with his hand.

He then requested her about her race and instructed her that he loves individuals of her race.

As he stroked her arm, {the teenager} tried to maneuver away however he continued and rubbed her arm.

By this time, one other man had arrived on the elevate foyer and stood behind Kumar.

Kumar continued to strike up a dialog with {the teenager} as he touched her arm. The three of them later entered the elevate.

After the opposite man bought off on the seventh flooring, Kumar repeatedly instructed {the teenager} that he “loved” her and blew kisses at her twice.

This left her feeling scared since they had been in an enclosed space and he or she didn’t know what to do, DPP Tan mentioned.

Once {the teenager} reached the fifteenth flooring, she rushed out of the elevate and returned house to inform her mom about what had occurred.

It just isn’t recognized if {the teenager} made a police report.

Kumar was later traced and positioned underneath arrest on November 8 at his residence and surveillance footage from the elevate was seized by the police.

In delivering the sentence, District Judge Paul Chan mentioned he didn’t settle for Kumar’s declare of regret as a result of somebody who’s genuinely remorseful wouldn’t go on to commit the identical offence a couple of months later.

The choose added that it was particularly disconcerting that Kumar focused a sufferer who was weak and likewise behaved in a persistent and brazen method when he dedicated his offences in a public place.

For utilizing legal pressure to outrage the modesty of the 2 victims, he might have been jailed as much as two years, fined or caned, or with any mixture of those punishments.