An ex- Western University professor under house arrest for sexual assault won’t be heading to India later this month for a family wedding as he hoped.

Instead, 65-year-old Ajay Ray – the former head of the university’s chemical and biochemical engineering department, who was retired following his conviction – will have to send his regrets and stay home after a judge denied his travel request.

Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie denied the proposed variance to Ray’s conditional sentence order Monday, with a reminder that conditional sentences imposed instead of incarceration are still supposed to be both punitive and rehabilitative.

While there can be exceptions made to the sentencing terms, “a family wedding does not rise to an acceptable permissible circumstance,” Carnegie said.

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