{"id":327563,"date":"2025-08-08T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327563\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:54:15","slug":"comedian-hardeep-singh-kohli-in-court-accused-of-sex-attacks-on-three-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327563\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli in court accused of sex attacks on three women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kohli is claimed to have indecently assaulted the first woman at BBC Studios in Glasgow’s Pacific Quay.\"HardeepHardeep Singh Kohli has appeared in court <\/p>\n

Scots comedian and ex-Big Brother contestant Hardeep Singh Kohli appeared in court today on sexual related charges.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 56-year-old allegedly attacked<\/a> three women between April 2007 and December 2016.<\/p>\n

Kohli is claimed to have indecently assaulted<\/a> the first woman at BBC Studios in Glasgow’s Pacific Quay.<\/p>\n

The charge says Kohli, of the city\u2019s Kelvinside, groped<\/a> her buttocks, seized her by the body and hugged her.<\/p>\n

A second allegation towards the same woman says that Kohli made a sexual comment<\/a> towards her at a Glasgow bar and restaurant.<\/p>\n

The third charge claims that Kohli indecently assaulted the woman in the city’s Raddison Blu Hotel.<\/p>\n

He is stated to have stroked her on the back and touched her hair.<\/p>\n

Kohli is charged with indecently assaulting<\/a> a second woman at Cross Keys Hotel, Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway.<\/p>\n

It is alleged that Kohli seized her by the arm, lunged towards her and attempted to kiss her face.<\/p>\n

A special defence of consent has been lodged for this charge.<\/p>\n

Kohli is further accused of conducting himself in a disorderly manner and commit breach of the peace at the same time and place.<\/p>\n

The charge says Kohli exposed and performed a sex act<\/a> on himself.<\/p>\n

The final charge alleges that Kohli sexually assaulted a third woman at Yes Bar in Glasgow city centre.<\/p>\n

He is stated to have seized the woman on the body, hugged her, kissed her on the mouth and attempted to put his tongue in her mouth.<\/p>\n

Kohli appeared in the dock today\/yesterday at Glasgow Sheriff Court <\/a>where he denied all six charges.<\/p>\n

Urfan Dar, defending, told the hearing: \u201cThe position is the defence is ready for trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe length of the trial both parties consider four to five days as a suitable estimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Dar stated that advocate Sarah Livingstone will defend Kohli at trial.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Sean Docherty told the court that he will cite seven civilian witnesses and one police witness.<\/p>\n

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Mr Docherty said: \u201cThe Crown is prepared for trial and I estimate it to be four days.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisclosure has been completed.\u201d<\/p>\n

A five-day trial was set for November by Sheriff John McCormick who continued Kohli’s bail meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kohli is claimed to have indecently assaulted the first woman at BBC Studios in Glasgow’s Pacific Quay.Hardeep Singh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[192,1456,748,30,54436,54433,918,4884,712,16237,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-327563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-dumfries","13":"tag-galloway","14":"tag-glasgow","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-sex-crime","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114992543650786758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}