Meditating Buddhist cleared of train sex assault

A Buddhist accused of thrusting his penis into a trainee police officer’s back on a train was cleared after he said he was meditating at the time. Sri Lankan Upul Katulanda, 33, was said to have sexually assaulted the woman as he stood behind her on the busy service between Enfield and Stratford in east London. The court heard he touched the woman’s hand before running his hand along her thigh on the Enfield to Stratford train. But Katulanda denied…