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The Straits Times, Singapore, 12 October 2018
Yoga teacher gets caning, longer jail term for molesting student after prosecution appeals
By Selina Lum
Law Correspondent
Rakesh Kumar Prasad had also appealed against his conviction but his arguments were rejected by the court. PHOTO: ST FILESINGAPORE - A yoga instructor who repeatedly molested his student had his jail sentence upped from nine months to a year, and was also given three strokes of the cane on Friday (Oct 12), after the High Court allowed an appeal by the prosecution.
Indian national Rakesh Kumar Prasad, 26, had also appealed against his conviction but his arguments were rejected by the court.
Justice See Kee Oon said Rakesh had blatantly abused his position of trust. "His sheer audacity in carrying out repeated intrusions with increasing brazenness while disparaging, belittling and threatening the victim must point strongly towards the need for caning," said the judge.
Rakesh had molested the woman, then 25, while she was the only student in his class at the Real Yoga studio in Tampines on April 26, 2015.
He cupped her breast while she was bending forward. She smacked his hand away and told him: "Don't touch my boobs." Instead of stopping, he pinched her breast. She told him off again but he molested her a third time by reaching into her bra. She knocked his hand away.
Later, he said to her "why cannot touch? ... It's not like there is anything to touch".
As she was leaving the studio, he grabbed her neck and pulled her backwards, telling her not to use the word "boob" and not to shout during his class.
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