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Desi man on trial for death of son’s black wife

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Trial is under way in the Sparkle Rai murder case. [AJC]

Chiman Rai, Sparkle Rai’s Indian father-in-law, was arrested under charges of hiring a contract killer to kill her. The trial is currently going on in Fulton County, GA.

We posted Sparkle Rai’s story on Über Desi last year. This story has generated some heated (and in some cases, unwarranted) comments in recent days. [UD Story]

Details of the case as posted on AJC:

(Chiman) Rai, a Mississippi businessman, is accused of hiring Cleveland Clark to kill Sparkle Rai.

Prosecutors contend that loving relationship led Rai’s father to order the murder of 22-year-old Sparkle Rai. They say Chiman Rai, 68, paid $10,000 for a hit man because he objected to his son marrying a black woman.

Prosecutor Sheila Ross, who heads Howard’s cold-case squad, told jurors in openings statements that the Rai killing in 2000 didn’t have fingerprints, fibers or DNA evidence but it had witnesses and a powerful motive.

A break came four years later when one of the women who accompanied the suspect to Sparkle Rai’s apartment was arrested on a drug charge by Atlanta police. She told them she knew who killed Sparkle — and that she and a friend witnessed the slaying.

Rai and four others were arrested in September 2006 and charged in the murder.

Prosecutors say Rai paid $10,000 to have Sparkle killed and turned to a business acquaintance, Herbert Green, who teamed up with a friend, Willie Fred Evans. Samuel noted that Green claimed to pick up a sack of cash from a vice president of a bank, who served as Rai’s financial adviser. The vice president denied the accusation and will testify for the defense, Samuel said.

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  • Gabrielle
    That poor woman. Chiman Rai is a complete coward along with his son. If there is any such thing as karma, I hope it comes back to them tenfold. Bastards! Feel so bad for the child who is left behind in all this sick madness.
  • Intertwined
    I attended HS with Sparkle and although we were different grades I saw her many times walking in the halls. I can't believe her love cost her life. I am too a black in a marriage with an Indian. And it's been tough. It was a long while before she even had the courage to tell her parents of our relationship. Although her father is more accepting, her mother is very upset.

    Although I cannot understand the culture fully in that respect I just hope one day her family can accept me for the person I am and any children we do have. Just as Sparkle's family accepted her husband, my parents accepted my wife. Although my mother passed away before she saw me married, she accepted her as the woman I chose to be with. May Sparkle Michelle Reid Forever Rest In Peace. May God Bless and Watch Over Her Daughter.
  • as a former classmate of Sparkle's, i am so saddened by her death. she was a wonderful person...
  • indiangirl
    DISGUSTING. What the hell is wrong with Indian people that they're so obsessed with this supposed "honor" crap they go to the lengths of KILLING?!?!?!?!?!?! Every time I read or hear something like this story, I am deeply ashamed to say that I'm Indian.

    May Chiman Rai rot in jail, hell for a long long long time. And Ricky Rai, needs to TAKE CARE OF HIS DAUGHTER that he's abandoned and pretending she doesn't exist anymore, while getting remarried to an Indian girl. Ironic isn't it? Indian people say all this crap about black men not taking care of their children while Ricky is doing THE SAME THING!

    Ignorant, racist Indian people need to wake up.
  • aflatoo
    As a desi I have no doubt that one of us can do the deed that Chiman Rai is accused of, so regressive is our thinking.It happens in India all the time dont it?.And the evidence here seems to point towards Chiman Rai.

    Should he get convicted he will regret his act every day of his life before suicide--US jails are filled with young black males, who have been deprived of sex for sometime.Add that to the fact that he hired assassins to kill a black for being black--The proctologist is gonna be occupied fulltime repairing his bottom!And I say, just desserts.
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