NRI Millionaire Tech Entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal Handcuffed to jail after Losing Appeal
The victim, who returned to South Korea and had not appeared in court to testify.
Chahal’s legal advisors and friends told Media that Chahal was treated unfairly by the court, and by the media
Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 2018
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
On Friday, Aug. 31, Gurbaksh Chahal, 35, was handcuffed at the San Francisco Superior court after two years fighting by appeal of probation violation ruling in a domestic violence case of 2014.
In the court, Gurbaksh Chahal was in tears, cry and said: “The truth is, I’m not a bad person and ‘your honor’, I am begging you, please mercy on me.”
Chahal’s attorney, Robert Shapiro ( famous O.J. Simpson defense attorney), requested the judge to reconsider her sentence.
Now Chahal will spend the next six months in San Francisco County Jail after being sentenced to a year in jail on the probation violation charge.
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In 2013, Chahal was arrested and charged with 47 counts of felony domestic violence for allegedly beating his girlfriend inside his high-rise penthouse at 301 Main St., San Francisco, California
- In 2014, Chahal attacked a 23-year-old woman in his apartment when he was still on probation
Gurbaksh Chahal beg and told Judge Brown about his foundation that he had helped hundreds of people, including women and victims of domestic violence. He requested Brown again and again, “Please reconsider my case” that it would affect his family and his business ventures.
Gurbaksh Chahal was once named “America’s Most Eligible Bachelor” by the TV show Extra!
Robert Shapiro requested the judge to remand Chahal into House Arrest.
- Judge Brown told Robert: “It is ironic that to sentence him to the place where the crimes were committed.”
- Shapiro requested the judge that Chahal could be sentenced to his parents’ home, where he would be fully supervised.
Brown remanded Chahal as he is being held in custody for violating his parole- considering that
- She had considered the entrepreneur’s charitable initiatives when she issued her sentence two years ago.
- Chahal had not apologized to his two victims, one of whom he severely beat 133 times in his San Francisco penthouse in 2013.
- The beating was captured on Chahal’s personal security cameras
- Chahal was serving a sentence of three years of probation, when he struck another woman several times.
Gurbaksh Chahal argued Brown was wrong to consider the surveillance footage of the first attack when deciding whether to revoke his probation. The footage has not been played in court or made public, and had previously been deemed inadmissible on the grounds that it was improperly obtained.
The California state appeals court rejected that argument.
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It also rejected Chahal’s claim that prosecutors did not do enough to get his second accuser to testify at his parole revocation hearing.
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The woman left for South Korea and declined to cooperate with prosecutors, according to court
Chahal argued Brown was wrong to consider the surveillance footage of the first attack when deciding whether to revoke his probation.
The state appeals court rejected that argument and also rejected Chahal’s claim that prosecutors did not do enough to get his second accuser to testify at his parole revocation hearing.
- The woman left for South Korea and declined to cooperate with prosecutors, according to court records.
A spokesman for the district attorney’s office told media said:
- Mr. Chahal sought to escape responsibility for assaulting two women, but today he learned that wealth and privilege will not shield him from consequences.
- Domestic violence is very serious, and we will always be here to make sure that batterers are held accountable.”
Chahal’s legal advisors and friends told media that Chahal was treated unfairly by the court, and by the media
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