Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Shankar molest case
Ex-TV presenter gets jail, 4 strokes for molest
FORMER TV presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar was on Tuesday handed down a 16-month jail sentence and four strokes of the cane for molesting a 30-year-old colleague at a party in 2002.
[Prev report: 31 Dec 03]
Although I personally feel that he's at fault, I think that the sentence is rather harsh and this might be so because this is such a highly publicised case and it is used as as a tool to caution others in future.