US: Indian sentenced to jail for emailing rape threat to woman

New York: An Indian citizen in the United States has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison for sending a rape threat through an e-mail to a woman. Karthikeyan Natarajan (27) was sentenced by federal court to 18 months in jail for violating federal law, US Attorney David Hickton said. [caption id=“attachment_1566773” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] According to information presented to the court, California-based Natarajan willfully sent an e-mail in April last year to a woman, threatening to rape her. United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Natarajan. PTI