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Sachdev appealing rape conviction

N.H. Supreme Court will hear his case

By Damien Fisher - Staff Writer | Dec 16, 2017

Telegraph file photo Abhishek Sachdev, 33, of Nashua, was convicted by a jury in June on one count of aggravated felonious sexual assault and one count of simple assault.

NASHUA – The case of a Nashua man convicted of raping an intoxicated woman in the back of his Main Street cell phone store is going to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Abhishek Sachdev, 33, currently is serving a 10- to 20-year prison sentence after being convicted by a jury in June on one count of aggravated felonious sexual assault and one count of simple assault. The New Hampshire Supreme Court has accepted his case for appeal.

Sachdev is appealing his conviction on five questions to the court. The first question is whether or not the original court erred in not suppressing the statements Sachdev made to police. The next two questions asks the High Court to consider his two motions to suppress evidence found on Sachdev during a police search and during a search of his store.

The final two questions are about the victim in the case. Sachdev’s appeal asks the Supreme Court to consider whether or not she was too intoxicated to give consent, and whether or not she actually gave consent to the sex.

On the night of July 12, 2016, the victim appeared outside the Cricket Wireless store Sachdev was setting up with another coworker. Sachdev was the regional manager for the wireless company, according to the court record.

The woman was barefoot and disheveled, wearing a bloody shirt. She had just left a sober house, where she had been undergoing rehab treatment, and told Sachdev and the other employee about her alcohol problem.

Sachdev responded by offering the woman some beer.

Prosecutors said in court that after they drank all the beer in the shop, Sachdev and the woman went to a convenience store to buy more beer, and Sachdev bought condoms. By the time the woman was too drunk to say no or fight back, by the time she was lying on cardboard on the floor in the back of the shop, Sachdev raped her, according court records.

When he was done, Sachdev sent the incoherent and vomiting young woman outside.

There is no date yet for a hearing in the Supreme Court.

Damien Fisher can be reached at 594-1245 or dfisher@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DF.

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