MELBOURNE: A 34-year old Indian cabbie was on Tuesday handed out a suspended jail term of 10-months on charges of sexually assaulting a drunken teenager in Australia last year.

A Brisbane district court today heard that Indian driver Harmeet Singh sexually assaulted the 18-year-old after picking her up in his taxi from Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley in the early hours of November 14 last year.

Singh pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault as the court heard that the abuse took place after the young woman realised she did not have the money for the fare.

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