NRI Neeraj Chopra Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Abusing a Minor Aboard a Flight En Route to MSP

Los Angeles, Jan 31, 2022
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh

Neeraj Chopra has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for engaging in abusive sexual contact on an airplane. According to court documents, in April 2019, Neeraj Chopra, 41, knowingly engaged in abusive sexual contact with a 16-year-old victim who was seated next to him aboard a Jet Blue flight from Boston to Minneapolis. During the flight, Chopra retrieved a blanket from his backpack and draped it over his lap, with a portion of the blanket also covering the victim’s right leg. Chopra put his hand under the blanket and began inappropriately touching the victim. Chopra ignored the victim’s multiple requests to stop and continued to inappropriately touch the victim.

According to the brief, one-page indictment obtained by Law&Crime, Chopra violated a sex crime statute on a Jet Blue flight on April 8, 2019 “by touching” a 16-year-old victim’s