Sentenced over repeated calls

• Published date: 24 January 2023
• Publication title: Ensign, The

Baghu Shankarial Rajpal (34), of Invercargill, appeared before Judge Russell Walker in the Gore District Court, where he entered a guilty plea to one charge of using a telephone device to offend a recipient in Gore on December 16

When asked by Judge Walker why he called Shosha Vape in both Gore and Invercargill so many times, Rajpal said he had not heard back after applying for jobs and it had made him frustrated.

The summary of facts states Rajpal was served a trespass order for both shops on December 5.

Between December 5 and 16, he called Shosha Gore 28 times and the Invercargill shop 24 times.

‘‘Sixteen of those calls [in Gore] were in quick...