A 51-year-old man from India visiting Canada on a temporary visa was convicted of criminally harassing two teenaged girls outside a Sarnia high school and will be deported and banned from coming back to the country.

Jagjit Singh, 51, who lived in the Sarnia area while visiting his newborn grandchild, was also given a short jail sentence.

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“You had no business attending at the property of (that) high school,” Justice Krista Lynn Leszczynski said Wednesday. “This type of conduct will not be tolerated.”

Singh, who arrived in Canada in July on a six-month visa, frequented the smoking area of a Sarnia high school between Sept. 8 and Sept. 11. In that time, he approached young girls and repeatedly tried to communicate with and take pictures with them.

One girl, who initial

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