A 40-year-old Indian-origin restaurant owner with "wandering hands" has been jailed for nearly two years by a British court for sexually assaulting young women who applied for jobs as waitresses.
Prashant Sengar, boss of the Spicy Affair restaurant in Victoria Terrace, Leamington, claimed that six women who made complaints about him to the police were all lying.
But after hearing from his victims, most of whom did not know each other, a jury at Warwick Crown Court found him guilty of seven charges of sexual assault.
Sengar was jailed for 22 months and ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years.
Judge Andrew Lockhart on Friday also imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order banning him from interviewing female job applicants without a chaperone.
Prosecutor Lee Marklew had told the jury, "Prashant Sengar is a man with wandering hands. He's an arrogant man. He abused his position of authority with these ladies."
Judge Lockhart while sentencing him told Sengar, "You have been involved in a series of offences committed against young women who sought employment at your restaurant or in entertainment. I am sure this was planned activity."
Some of his victims quit after he threatened them with losing their jobs if they continued to rebuff his advances, the Birmingham Mail reported.
In all, six women complained to the police about Sengar's behaviour -- and the jury dismissed his protestation that they were all lying.
