The macaca crime blotter is on overdrive this month.
Long time readers may remember the story of Karishma Dhanak, 20, a UC Irvine student who was found murdered alongside her father about 3 years back. The crime was allegedly committed by her sister’s former boyfriend who wanted revenge on the parents for being responsible for the relationship ending, apparently religion was a factor.
NDTV reports that the accused, 25-year-old Indian national Iftekhar Murtaza, is currently on trial in Orange county, California.
Prosecutors in California’s Orange County had last week said they will …

Desi ishtyle [link] (tip maisnon via email)
No thanks to Anurag Mathur’s The Inscrutable Americans, it has been every desi guy’s dream to join the mile high club. Murali Nookella achieved it in typical desi ishtyle and probably landed himself on the FBI no-fly list.
Say you’re a 34 year old horny male computer programmer from the subcontinent stuck on a boring cross country flight. What do you do for fun? If your name is Murali Nookella, the answer would be: pull out the male organ and start pleasuring one’s self.
A Delaware …

…. desi ishtyle. Sujatha (Sue) Sachdeva, Koss’s former vice president of finance and secretary, had a penchant for clothing, jewelery and to put it in simpler terms “bling”. However, there is a reason for the use of the word “former vice president”, she reportedly pursued her love for “da bling” with her employer’s money. [MW]
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal had reported that the U.S. attorney in Milwaukee had filed a criminal complaint charging Sachdeva with embezzling company funds.
The complaint charged that she spent some $4.5 million to buy furs, …

Link via Chicago Tribune
Chicago based Samir Zia Chowan [sic](Chowhan), an immigration attorney, lists an ad for a secretary in the adult section of Craigslist, and requests ‘physical measurements’ along with a photo, strangely enough he gets a response and hat gets him bold enough to inform the job aspirant that fulfilling his ‘adult entertainment’ fantasies are also part of the job, including sexual interactions with him and his partner, sometimes together, sometimes separate.
And such it goes, the text of the e-mail response, other counts of legal offenses can be seen …

Patrick Nayyar, an immigrant from the des, was arrested by the FBI for trying to aid, of all organizations, (in)famous international terror group Hezbollah. [Rediff]
According to the indictment filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court and the criminal complaint unsealed on September 24, between July 2009 and September 2009, Nayyar along with his accomplice Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland agreed to provide weapons, ammunition and vehicles to Hezbollah.
Among other equipment, Nayyar sold the FBI informant a handgun, a box of ammunition and a pick-up truck and further agreed to provide them with …

An Indian origin couple has been sentenced in Australia on manslaughter charges in connection with the death of their baby girl.
Thomas Sam, 42, a college lecturer in homoeopathy and his wife Manju, 37, of Sydney were found guilty of the most serious case of manslaughter by criminal negligence leading to the death of their nine-month-old daughter Gloria in May 2002.(link)
The father a practicing homeopath chose to treat his daughter with homeopathic medicines for a simple case of eczema, that deteriorated into a serious skin disorder that led to the child’s …

After INS and TSA, it’s burglars now. Apparently, Hindu homes in Fairfax county of Virginia are being targeted by burglars. [MyFoxDC]
Homes with Ganesh symbols hit hardimg: via MyFoxDC
The Hindu god, Ganesh, is considered the remover of obstacles. For burglars in Virginia targeting homes with Hindu symbols, Ganesh, seems to be doing exactly that, removing any obstacles in their path.
Since January of this year, someone has been targeting homes in Fairfax County based on their ethnic and religious affiliations.
Investigators now believe they can link 16 crimes in which the burglar or …

Anirudh Lakhan Sukhu, 42, pleaded guilty to among other things, armed bank robbery, shooting and injuring a bank employee during the robbery and leading the police on a car chase across four counties. [TOI]
Sukhu is accused of teaming up with Sharman Said and Omar Burnett to rob a Bank of America branch in Clarksville, Maryland. During the robbery Sukhu is alleged to have shot a bank employee in the hand with a shotgun and then using his pick-up truck as the escape vehicle. During the ensuing police chase, spanning four …

Gurjeet Singh of Merriville, Indiana was shot dead while working at his uncle’s gas station. [Post Tribune]
Gurjeet, originally from India, in the US via Canada was brutally shot and killed by 4 armed assailants. The story gets much worse when security tapes show costumers leaving the gas station who did not even call in to report the robbery or the killing.

Here’s a true story of how racial stereotyping can cause pain, even when done with the best of intentions. [LATimes]
In 1992, Kalpesh Vardhan, a UCLA student and the son of Indian immigrants, was found murdered in a parking garage in downtown L.A.
On the morning of Aug. 19, 1992, Kalpesh Vardhan pulled his Toyota Corolla into a tall parking structure on Olive and 8th streets in downtown L.A.
More than seven hours later, a parking lot security guard noticed a body sprawled behind parked vehicles. It looked at first like a …

An Indian student at the University of Southern Mississippi was seriously injured in a robbery at the gas station he was working at. The Indian media seems to be falling over themselves to sensationalize this incident and each news source has conflicting reports on the same story.

Residents of the upper class enclave in Santa Clara , an upscale community near Silicon Valley woke up to reports of a tragedy that took the lives of 6 family members.
six bodies were scattered around the three-story townhome, four were dead, including a 42-year-old man whom police suspect was the shooter (link)
The dead inlcuded the shooter, his two children aged 11 and 4, a 35 year old male , a 25 year old female and a year old toddler. The wife of the shooter survived but is in critical condition. …

A cop in St. Louis, Missouri, who was allegedly driving drunk struck a 1999 Honda Civic with 5 desi students, killing 4 instantly. [STL Today]
The deceased are Satya Chinta, 25, Anusha Anumolu, 23, Anita Lakshmi, 23, and Prya Muppvarapu, 22. The driver of the Honda Civic, Nitesh Adusumilli, 27, is listed in critical condition..
In his profile on an Indian matchmaking website, Nitesh Adusumilli wrote that he lives with passion and fervor, optimistic about both his future in love and career as a database administrator.
“I am a balance of calm waters …

Four Hindi speaking residents in the Bay area were attacked in what appears to be a racially motivated crime. [NBC]
The victims appear to be random selected ….
Police said four victims had left a bar and were walking to their car in a parking lot in the 200 block of Castro Street when they were approached by two female suspects.
The two female suspects allegedly approached a female victim and began punching and slapping her.
…. but the attack appears to be planned and coordinated.
When the victim’s husband intervened, a …

A UNIX engineer from India has been accused of plotting to sabotage Fannie Mae servers. [IW] (tip Sidhu via email)
What is mind boggling is the simplicity of the alleged plot ….
According to the affidavit of FBI special agent Jessica Nye, the Unix engineer who found the malicious script, identified only as SK, did so by accident. “The malicious script was at the bottom of the legitimate script, separated by approximately one page of blank lines, apparently in an effort to hide the malicious script within the legitimate script,” the affidavit …

Akshay Vishal, an employee of the scandal-ridden Satyam Computers succumbed to injuries from a gun shot wound in Little Rock Arkansas. [TOI]
Akshay Vishal, the victimimg: via TimesNow
Akhsay was from Andhra Pradesh, did his M.S. in Alaska and was working as designing engineer for Falcon Jet Airways in Arkansas on behalf of Satyam. Here’s the gut wrenching part, an hour before he was shot he had called his mother in India to greet her for Sankranti.
The motive behind the shooting is suspected to be robbery and the Little Rock police have …

…. like this jealous Indian wife in Australia. [DNA]
An Indian-born Australian woman who allegedly set fire to her husband’s genitals suspecting his fidelity has appeared in a local court with fresh charges of murder slapped against her.
This is one of those stories that makes all men go “ouch!”.
Rajini Narayan, 44, who allegedly murdered her husband, in a bizarre manner by torching his genitals which set her Cleveland Avenue townhouse in Adelaides ablaze had later told her neighbours “it’s just a penis I wanted to burn I didn’t mean this to …

From foxnews.com
A shooting inside of a New Jersey church service Sunday morning left one woman dead and two others critically injured, MyFOXNY is reporting.(link)
The incident ocurred at the St.Thomas Knanaya Syrian Christian Church. Reshma James, 24, died after being shot by her estranged husband, Joseph “Sanish” Pallipurath, 27. The police are on the look out for the husband who is alleged to have driven from California to New Jersey.
A witness told NorthJersey.com that Pallipurath came into to the church saying, “I came to take my wife.”
Most of the church members …

After a long trial, it looks like Anand Jon, Newsweeks most successful South Asian of 2004 and star of “America’s Next top model” will finally spend some time behind bars for all his reprehensible acts, the sentence will be delivered on the 13th of January 2009.
Jon, 34, a rising designer who had dressed socialite Paris Hilton and singer Janet Jackson before his arrest last year, was found guilty on 16 criminal counts. They included lewd acts on a child and involved assaults between 2001 and 2007 against nine aspiring models …

There’s something fishy at everyone’s favorite South Indian restaurant chain and it ain’t the sambhar. [NDTV] [India Today] (Runa via email)
P.K.Shivakumar, MD of the popular hotel chain Saravana Bhavan was arrested in Chennai. He is allegedly involved in human trafficking to the United States.
From India Today:
Shivakumar had allegedly prepared fake documents for four of his employees with an ulterior motive of getting US visas under the pretext of visiting an expo and get them employed in America, they (US consulate officials) said. During the course of their visa interview at …