Don’t touch that! - Part 2

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What is it with Indian men in Britain and the distressing habit of playing with their built-in pacifiers? Here we go again. Indian national Ray George, 38, a cardiology registrar at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton has been [...]

Desi jailed for siphoning 9/11 funds

Natarajan Venkataram, was sentenced to 15 years for stealing funds intended to help victims of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. He was a director in the office of chief medical examiner and according to statements routed the money to the amount of almost $9 million through bogus computer companies, including some in India. [Sify]
Really, [...]

Desi guilty of trade secret theft

Former Hewlett-Packard Vice-President, Atul Malhotra, plead guilty to passing confidential information about his former employer IBM on to his new employer, HP. [HT]

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Sabhnanis order to pay $1 million to maids

A District court judge ordered the Sabhnanis to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to the women whom they were accused of enslaving and torturing. [NDTV]
Even Dr, ,Evil says one million dollars is not enough reparations for slaveryimg: via Wiki
The Sabhnanis, who own an international perfumes business, were accused of holding two Indonesian women [...]

Arranged or Deranged?

Chaudhary Rashid a 54 year old Man in Georgia was charged with the killing of his daughter Sandeela Kanwal(link) .The purported motive is that his daughter reportedly was not happy with her recent arranged marriage that took place in Pakistan to a man who now lives in Chicago.
“The victim was not interested in marrying, [...]

Chiman Rai gets life

Chiman Rai, 68, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted for hiring a contract killer to kill his black daughter-in-law, Sparkle Rai. [AJC]
The mind-boggling quote of the day comes from Chiman Rai’s defense lawyer:
“It is not necessary for you to kill Chiman Rai,” Samuel told jurors. “This was not a crime motivated by [...]

11 year sentence for Sabhnani (UPDATE 2 )

A judge has sentenced Mahendra Varsha Sabhnani convicted in a slavery case that we covered here , and here to 11 years of prison.Unfortunately, this is an AP news release so I cannot quote any of it here because of this .
UPDATE: CNN now reports that Varsha Sabhnani was sentenced to 11 yedars while Mahendra [...]

Desi teenagers in California face jailtime for hacking

Two desi teenagers in California are facing jailtime for charges of breaking into a school and hacking into the computer systems with stolen IDs and passwords to change grades. [FOX News] (tip Jennie via email)
The two accusedimg: via Fox
According to the story, 18 year olds Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, are being accused of [...]

NRI sentenced in US-India arms scam

Parthasarathy Sudarshan, a NRI has been sentenced for three years in the US for an arms scam. [BBC]
As discussed on UD earlier this year, Sudarshan was accused violating arms control laws by secretly trying to sell components for space vehicles, ballistic missiles and fighter jets to firms associated with India’s defense agencies [UD].

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

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 [...]

Immigration Update: Premium processing for some I140s, desis held in scam

Premium processing for some I140s
Potential good news for those who’re labor certified but approaching the end of their 6 year quota for H1B visas. Starting today (June 16th 2008), USCIS has announced plans for premium processing for I140 (permanent work permit). [USCIS]
The I140 will be processed within 15 days for a fee of $1000.
Desis [...]

Murder down under

An Indian national has been accused of brutally killing his wife and stepdaughter in Australia.
(Sanjay)Mehta allegedly murdered his wife and stepdaughter in Dunn Way in the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown, according to a police statement submitted to the Blacktown Local Court on Monday afternoon.(link)
Sanjay Mehta as been charged with the murder of his [...]

Desi musician accused of molesting minor

US based Indian classical musician, Shafaatullah Khan, has been charged with molesting a minor. [TOI] (tip Runa via email)
Shafaatullah Khan, 42, a native of India who lives in Pennsylvania, was charged with multiple counts of corruption of a minor, indecent assault and related offences.
The girl, now 16, said in court on Tuesday that she took [...]

LSU suspects arrested

3 young men have been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of LSU Indian students, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam. Authorities have refused to answer any questions on these arrests and at this stage it is unclear what clues led the authorities to these men. [Yahoo News] (tip Sidhu via email)
BATON ROUGE, [...]

ABD student found dead in Delhi under mysterious circumstances (Update)

Update:
Correction from original story: the name of the victim is Keanan not Kenan. Keanan, was the son of Little India editor, Anchal Mehra. This is either one of the weirdest suicides ever, or, one of the craziest stories a police investigation cooked up. [TOI Online]
If going by the official police theories, Keanan did indeed commit [...]

Indian priest arrested on molestation charges

In a shocking incident, Prakashanand Saraswati the 79-year old founder of the Barsana Dham centre in north Hays County in Texas was arrested at an airport in Washington, DC last week on suspicion of molesting young children. ( link)
Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt Leroy Opiela said, the priest was booked “on two indictments alleging [...]

Desi killer to be extradited

The Delhi High court in India dismissed an appeal by Kamlesh Agarwal, accused killer of Deepa Agarwal, a twenty year old ABD Florida college student . (Tip:Santosh via email) Kamlesh Agarwal - a cousin of Deepa’s father, killed her in her Orlando Florida home on July 11, 1999. He then fled to India. Deepa’s parents [...]

Fijian desi killed (Update)

The suburban oasis of San Ramon, around fifty miles from San Francisco is a quiet, sylvan place. On Sunday , the city reported its first homicide in two years.The body of 42-year old Kashmir Singh Billon was found next to the bullet ridden BMW that he owned.(link)
The husband and father of three grew up in [...]

Long sentences in store for desi couple involved in slavery

Remember the desi couple, Varsha and Mahender Sabhnani, who got into trouble for keeping slaves? (1,2) (You heard that right, slaves in the 21st century)
img: via NewsDay
After their day in court, feds have recommended that Varsha Sabhnani get 30 years to life in prison and Mahender Sabhnani serve between 12 to 15 years. [Main Story]
The [...]

Desi kills wife, stabs daughter

34-year old Balbir Singh has been arrested and charged with murder in the Sunday night stabbing death of his wife, New York city police said. Singh killed his wife Sunday night in their apartment in Queens in an attack that also left his 7-year-old daughter hospitalized with a stab wound in the arm. (link)
Another [...]

Clinton’s $109 million includes desi donor

By now you’ve probably heard of the $109 million earnings of the Clintons since they left office in 2001, which some pundits predict could put the final nail in the coffin of a struggling Hillary Clinton campaign.
One the major donors of the Clintons’ fortune is InfoUSA founder, Vinod Gupta.
From TOI
An Indian-American technology entrepreneur, whose connections [...]

Justice for Kapali?

On November 18,2007  Kapali Giridhar Swamy , 27 of Decatur, Alabama was traveling in a car along with Gina Gonzalez and Christopher Brett Pennington to Pennington’s residence after  a night out in Birmingham. Along the way, an argument began between Swamy  and Gonzalez that escalated to the point that Pennington hit Swamy. Kapali fell to the ground. [...]

NRI guilty in US-India arms deal

Parthasarathy Sudarshan, a resident of Simpsonville, South Carolina, has been found guilty of illegal arms export from US to India. [link]
img: via AFP
A citizen of India living legally in South Carolina pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally export weapons to India, authorities said Thursday. It was one of two cases involving illegal [...]

Southie film industry involved in visa scam

Several film industry personnel in South India are on the US blacklist after a visa scam was unearthed. The scam was simple and effective, people were paying movie industry contacts money so they could pretend to work on a movie in the US, entered the US on a temporary visa and stayed on illegally. To [...]

Another Indian PhD student shot dead (Update 2: UNC suspect charged in Mahato killing)

Abhijit Mahato completed his mechanical engineering degree from Jadavpur University in 2001 and an M.Tech from the Indian Institute for Technology (IIT) in Kanpur in 2004. He then worked at the GE Research center in Bangalore for two years, focusing his research on computer simulation techniques.Like so many other desi kids, he decided to complete [...]