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Indian-origin engineer to be deported for stalking boss's daughter
Sydney, Sep 14
An Indian-origin engineer in
Australia has been fined $2,000 and ordered to be deported after he
pleaded guilty to stalking his employer's daughter, a media report said.
Indian-born
Abhinav Singh, 33, who holds a Canadian passport, swamped the young
colleague with hundreds of text messages, phone calls and voice messages
in Queensland's Gladstone city and elsewhere despite warnings from
police, gladstoneobserver.com.au reported on Monday.
Singh pleaded guilty before the Gladstone Magistrates Court to stalking the woman between July 14 and August 28.
"I am guilty, I plead guilty," Singh was quoted as saying during the hearing.
Prosecutor
Nina Sulzer told magistrate Mark Morrow that the man professed his love
saying: "I have now officially declared a war to get ***** at any
cost."
Sulzer said the woman never expressed any romantic
interest in Singh, but he went through office records to get her mobile
phone umber.
Singh twice went to the woman's family home and argued with her father, telling him he officially declared war.
"She
(the victim) believes he was living in fantasyland. She was in no way
romantically inclined toward him and she sought the assistance of the
police," Sulzer said.
In response to a police email asking him
to stop all contact with the woman, Singh said he would continue to
pursue the woman until he got a message from her stating she did not
love him.
"I'm in love with *****. It's my right to express my love to her. I will continue to call her," he told police.
Singh
was later arrested by the Department of Immigration and Border
Protection and is now being held at a Queensland detention centre. He
will be leaving behind his wife who is a doctor, and their two children.
"His
stupidity of behaviour will cause long-lasting consequences to his wife
and children. He was here on a temporary resident's visa. No, they are
not filing for divorce at this stage," defence lawyer Jun Pepito was
quoted as saying.