Shiv Kumar Yadav was also convicted of criminal intimidation, kidnapping, and endangering the woman's life, public prosecutor Atul Srivastava told reporters.
Prosecutions for student bullying are rare; perhaps the best-known case is that of Dharun Ravi, who was convicted of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy charges for using a webcam to spy on his Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide a few days later.
Khan was convicted of witness intimidation.
Speaking to reporters on the Clinton plane, campaign chair John Podesta said: "[Christie's] two top aides today were just convicted of corruption for political intimidation".
Mr. Ravi could go away for years because, on top of spying, he was convicted of a hate crime: bias intimidation, a conviction probably influenced by Mr. Clementi's subsequent suicide.
And Dharun Ravi, the student who spied on Mr. Clementi, had not been convicted of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation, though his 30-day jail sentence was criticized by some gay-rights advocates as too lenient.
Roheez Khan, 27, also from Rochdale, was jailed for six and a half years after he was convicted of sexual activity with a child and witness intimidation.
Roheez Khan, 27, of Ashfield Road, Rochdale, was jailed for six and a half years after he was convicted of sexual activity with a child and witness intimidation.
On the one hand Ravi was convicted of 15 counts, including invasion of privacy, tampering with evidence, and bias intimidation, in a case whose facts were essentially undisputed.
The 30-day jail sentence Dharun Ravi received in the Rutgers spying case will be debated for years, but it is far more just than the 10 years he could have received after being convicted of invasion of privacy, witness tampering and multiple counts of a hate crime called bias intimidation.
