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New York, January 31
A 41-year-old Indian-origin man within the US has been sentenced to fifteen months in jail for sexually abusing a minor boy seated subsequent to him on an airplane in 2019, based on the Justice Division.
District Decide Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Neeraj Chopra, who’s from Minneapolis, for participating in sexual contact on an airplane throughout a flight from Boston to Minneapolis, based on a press release by the US Division of Justice on Friday.
Chopra was convicted of the crime in July final yr following a three-day trial.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, Chopra knowingly engaged in abusive sexual contact with a 16-year-old sufferer who was seated subsequent to him aboard a Jet Blue flight from Boston to Minneapolis in April 2019.
Throughout the flight, Chopra retrieved a blanket from his backpack and draped it over his lap, with a portion of the blanket additionally overlaying the sufferer’s proper leg.
Chopra put his hand below the blanket and started inappropriately touching the sufferer and ignored the sufferer’s a number of requests to cease, it stated.
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