Indian who became US tycoon is now in Jail
Gurbaksh Chahal, the multimillionaire tech mogul, is no longer that. A San Francisco judge has sentenced former RadiumOne and Gravity4 CEO Gurbaksh Chahal to 12 months in county jail. Prosecutors said Chahal, 34, attacked a woman in his San Francisco penthouse in 2014, just a year after beating a different woman in the same apartment, and that his actions violated the probation he was placed under as a result of the first case. The Lamborghini-driving, Vegas-partying playboy who made a fortune in the ad tech business now faces time behind bars for smacking his then-girlfriend 117 times. The exact number is known because the entire beating was captured on a video camera he had set up in his bedroom, above his bed.
Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown agreed with the district attorney’s office last month, and ordered Chahal to surrender his passports. After she sentenced Chahal on Friday, he remained free on $250,000 bail, pending an appeal that his attorney has 30 days to file. “I don’t think it would be appropriate to keep Mr. Chahal on probation given the nature of the new incident,” Brown said in court. After discarding his turban against his parents’ wishes and hitting the gym to shed his teenage chubbiness, he emerged with male-model looks. He then started another company, Blue Lithium, taking advantage of nascent technology that enabled companies to track the behavior of online consumers. Four years later, Yahoo! paid $300 million to buy it from him. Chahal was 25 back then. He moved out of his house when he was merely 18 years old.