Indian-origin entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal violates his 2014 probation by assaulting another girlfriend
Gurbaksh Chahal has been given time to appeal the ruling. Pic/PTI
San Fransisco: Indian-origin Silicon Valley mogul Gurbaksh Chahal, who sold his startup for $300 million at the age of 25 and appeared on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' as a highly eligible bachelor, has been sentenced to a year in jail for violating his probation in a domestic violence case.
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Gurbaksh Chahal has been given time to appeal the ruling. Pic/PTI
But, Chahal (34) will not immediately begin serving the sentence because San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown cited questions about the evidence while giving him time to appeal her ruling.
Brown determined last month that Chahal had violated the probation ordered after he pleaded guilty in 2014 to misdemeanour charges of battery and domestic violence battery.
Prosecutors said surveillance footage from his San Francisco penthouse showed him punching and kicking his girlfriend 117 times and trying to smother her with a pillow.
Video of violence finally made admissible
Chahal entered his plea to the reduced charges after the woman stopped cooperating with authorities and a judge said the video could not be used as evidence because it had been improperly obtained. He was accused of violating his probation by kicking another girlfriend, who also didn't cooperate with prosecutors.
Brown allowed the penthouse video to be admitted as evidence in the probation hearing, and she reviewed it privately before issuing her ruling last month.
USD 300mn
The deal for the sale of Chahal's digital advertising company, Blue Lithium, to Yahoo in 2007
117
No. of times he was shown beating up his girlfriend in a video obtained in 2013
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