{"id":33160,"date":"2014-05-05T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33160"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:43:49","slug":"new-york-sikh-cabbie-found-guilty-kidnapping-raping-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/new-york-sikh-cabbie-found-guilty-kidnapping-raping-passenger","title":{"rendered":"New York Sikh cabbie found guilty of kidnapping, raping passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/new-york-sikh-cabbie-found-guilty-kidnapping-raping-passenger\/bb-53\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33161\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/new-york-sikh-cabbie-found-guilty-kidnapping-raping-passenger\/bb-53\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/bb3.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/bb3.jpg?fit=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/bb3.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33161 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bb3.jpg?resize=218%2C145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bb\" width=\"218\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/bb3.jpg?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/bb3.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Sikh taxi driver in New York has been found guilty of kidnapping and raping a 29-year-old female passenger three years ago and faces 25 years in prison when he is sentenced May 12.<\/p>\n<p>But a Brooklyn jury Friday acquitted Gurmeet Singh, 42, of Queens of robbery and assault as well as the top count of predatory sexual assault, New York Daily News reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was terrified. I thought it was really scary,&#8221; a 61-year-old female juror was quoted as saying of the victim&#8217;s testimony, which was punctuated by hysterical sobs as she recounted waking up in the back of a car and being violated at knifepoint.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of the panel, which deliberated for over a day, tended to buy Singh&#8217;s account that the back-seat sex was consensual, Daily News said.<\/p>\n<p>But the panel eventually agreed that the woman must have passed out and could not have thrown herself at the bearded driver, as he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a non-profit employee, testified she hailed a yellow cab in Williamsburg after a Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for &#8220;fifth of May&#8221;), a Mexican-American holiday, party in May 2011, dozed off and came to when the defendant was on top of her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bound, gagged, blindfolded with a knife to her throat,&#8221; prosecutor Linda Weinman was quoted as saying in her closing argument. &#8220;(She) woke up to her worst nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered cuts and a busted lip and her cellphone and $20 were missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to get killed&#8217;,&#8221; she recounted through tears last week.<\/p>\n<p>Gurmeet Singh was earlier implicated but never charged in a similar attack in Harlem, according to Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sikh taxi driver in New York has been found guilty of kidnapping and raping a 29-year-old female passenger three years ago and faces 25 years in prison when he is sentenced May 12. 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