NRI asked to serve in blind school for 6 months for harassing

New Delhi, Jul 8 (PTI) A Canada-based expatriate
Indian, who married a young divorcee here but deserted her
soon after marriage which led her to commit suicide, has been
convicted by a Delhi court for subjecting her to mental
torture but let off with a mild sentence asking him to serve a
blind school in the city for 6 months.
After convicting Pawan Dass, a resident of Surrey in
Canada, Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau let him off on
probation on the plea for leniency by his counsel, who pointed
out that he had been in jail for last 11 months.
Lau, however, ordered him to perform community service
at blind students school at Kingsway Camp in North Delhi for 6
months.
"Single women particularly divorcee are easy prey. In
the hope of getting away from anxieties and pressures of
day-to-day life, they become victims of NRIs, who sell them
tall dreams of a bright life away from their homes and after
marriage abandoned them causing physical, mental and
psychological deprivation as has happened in the present
case," Lau said, convicting Dass.
The city police had sent up Dass for trial on charges
of subjecting his wife Richa to cruelty and driving her to
commit suicide in April 2004 after marrying her during one of
his brief visits here from Canada in December 2003. The court,
however, acquitted him of the charges of drving her to commit
suicide.