Sixth Additional District and Sessions Judge Sayeedunnisa here has sentenced Nagesh, a 30-year-old resident of K.R. Nagar, to seven years rigorous imprisonment on finding him guilty of sexually harassing and robbing a fourth-year MBBS student from Kerala, of cash and an ATM card, at a women’s hostel in the city in 2017.
The judge on Friday sentenced Nagesh to seven years rigorous imprisonment each for the offences under Sections 457 (house break-in by night) and 397 (robbery) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and five years rigorous imprisonment each for offences under Sections 380 (theft) and 354 (assault on a woman with an intention to outrage her modesty) of the IPC. The judge imposed a total fine of ₹ 30,000 on him and said that all his sentences will run concurrently.
Nagesh was accused of entering the third floor of the women’s hotel of a medical college in Deralakatte in the…