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Aiyar is appealing against both the conviction and the sentence
and is currently out after coughing up Singapore $40,000 as bail,
say media reports from Singapore.
The incident took place in November 2002, after a party, where Aiyar
met the woman. The report indicate that he outraged the modesty of
the women at his apartment in the suburb of Lorong Chuan.
Aiyar a bachelor, who used to present a programme In Conversation,
was charged in May last year and tried in September and November.
Apparently he had even tried to call off the entire issue by offering
to compensate the woman if she would withdraw her charges, say the
reports.
The judge had already convicted Shankar last week calling him a
'hunting wolf in sheep's clothing.'
According to media reports, Yeo said he was guided by two precedents
while passing the sentence and his judgement. The first involved
a case of a student who molested another who was sharing an umbrella
with him and the other which involved a man who stroked his victim
in a crowded place. Each of the offender was caned and jailed for
nine months and their appeals against conviction dismissed.
All pointers are that even Aiyar's case is unlikely to find any
recourse.
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