Indian-Origin Student Suspended By UK University For Stalking Female Student

Sahil Bhavnani admitted to stalking an Oxford Brookes University female student. After his university expelled him, a 22-year-old Indian-origin student was found guilty by a UK court and given a four-month suspended sentence, as per reports. 

After learning that Bhavnani will be returning to Hong Kong with his father on Saturday, Judge Nigel Daly issued the verdict at the Oxford Crown Court. A suspended sentence is one that the court orders the defendant to serve a period of probation after being convicted of a criminal offense.

"If you violate the order, you face up to five years in prison." "I hope your bizarre obsession with her is over," Judge Daly told Bhavnani.

As per reports, the female student in her complaint had said, "I started getting six-minute voice messages saying he was going to force me to be his wife, have his children, and end up living with him." She made it clear that she was not interested in any kind of relationship, and she threatened to call the cops on Bhavnani if he continued to harass her.

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Sahil reportedly admitted that he has found the poetry online to threaten the student. The court said that Bhavnani threatened a female nursing student in a 100-page letter.

Student support, academic adviser, and the Oxford Brookes University student investigation team were all emailed by the student. She was told, however, that they wouldn't be able to investigate Bhavnani's actions until the criminal justice process was finished.

It advised her to report it after the court case was completed. She was directed to an online tool when she insisted on reporting the threats, which made compiling a picture of months of harassment difficult, according to reports. 

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Oxford Brookes, like other UK universities, was following guidance from 2016 on how to handle student misconduct. The complainant student is reportedly pushing for a change in the university's policies, as well as more help for stalking victims.

The university said in a statement that "following a university conduct hearing, the university imposed the most severe penalty available, and the student was expelled from Oxford Brookes."