Indian-origin ex-police officer in UK jailed for sexual assault

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An Indian-origin former police officer in the UK has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for sexually assaulting a colleague while on duty, the Metropolitan police said.

Archit Sharma, a former police constable, was sentenced on Friday to 16 months imprisonment and added to the Sex Offenders Register for ten years, the Met said in a statement on Saturday. A restraining order was also issued against Sharma, preventing him from contacting the victim for ten years, and he was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of GBP 156.

Allegation that Sharma sexually assaulted a colleague while both were on duty was received in December 2020. He was convicted at a court here in March and resigned four days later, the statement said.

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