Kin of Punjabis killed in US rue govt apathy
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By The Tribune
Jan 29, 2008 - 12:06:33 AM
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The mother of Kalsi brothers at their cremation in Patiala on Monday.
Ropar, January 28: Punjabis in the USA are being treated as second-grade citizens. The government there has not been probing the murder of Punjabis. Kin of the Punjabis killed in the US over the past few years have stated this to The Tribune.
Ramanpreet Singh of Patiala had migrated to the USA a decade ago. He became a successful businessman there. In a decade he was running the California Trucking Corporation.
However, he was murdered at the residence of a friend on August 13, 2006. It has been two years, but the police has failed to arrest anyone for his murder.
His brother Harpal Singh, who is staying here, told The Tribune that he went to the USA and talked to detectives investigating the crime. Their response to probe into the murder was lukewarm.
“Since my brother was a green card holder, the police there did not take much interest in investigating the murder,” he alleged.
He further said whenever there was a crime against an NRI in India the media and the police got after it and culprits rarely go scot-free. However, in the US green card holders or Indians working against other work visa did not get similar treatment. It was also unfortunate that at a recent NRI sammelan in Punjab nobody bothered about the increasing number of crimes against the Indian community in the US, he rued.
The government should take up the matter of unsolved murder cases of Punjabis with the US government, he said.
Preet Rupinder Singh, a resident of Ropar, who was pursuing M.Tech course in California, was murdered on December 9, 2007, at a store where he worked part-time. Though general security cameras are installed at all stores in the US, the police has failed to get to culprits who killed Preet.
Manjit Singh, a resident of Patiala, was murdered in New Jersey in the US in 2004. Manjit was also a successful businessman there. Even after three years, his killers have not been traced. His family members here said they had lost hope that the US police would do anything to bring the guilty to book.
The bodies of Paramjit Singh Kalsi and Ravinder Singh Kalsi, two Punjabi hoteliers murdered in Sanpablo in California on December 27, 2007, will be reaching for cremation at Patiala in a few days. The families are alleging that the US authorities extend very little support to kin of Indians killed there. “We had to wait for more than a month to bring the bodies back to India,” they said.
The visa rules should be relaxed for the kin of those who were killed in the US as they were visiting the country just to claim the bodies of their family members, they said.
Kin of Punjabis killed in US rue govt apathy
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Posted in: Asia
By The Tribune
Jan 29, 2008 - 12:06:33 AM
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Ropar, January 28: Punjabis in the USA are being treated as second-grade citizens. The government there has not been probing the murder of Punjabis. Kin of the Punjabis killed in the US over the past few years have stated this to The Tribune.
Ramanpreet Singh of Patiala had migrated to the USA a decade ago. He became a successful businessman there. In a decade he was running the California Trucking Corporation.
However, he was murdered at the residence of a friend on August 13, 2006. It has been two years, but the police has failed to arrest anyone for his murder.
His brother Harpal Singh, who is staying here, told The Tribune that he went to the USA and talked to detectives investigating the crime. Their response to probe into the murder was lukewarm.
“Since my brother was a green card holder, the police there did not take much interest in investigating the murder,” he alleged.
He further said whenever there was a crime against an NRI in India the media and the police got after it and culprits rarely go scot-free. However, in the US green card holders or Indians working against other work visa did not get similar treatment. It was also unfortunate that at a recent NRI sammelan in Punjab nobody bothered about the increasing number of crimes against the Indian community in the US, he rued.
The government should take up the matter of unsolved murder cases of Punjabis with the US government, he said.
Preet Rupinder Singh, a resident of Ropar, who was pursuing M.Tech course in California, was murdered on December 9, 2007, at a store where he worked part-time. Though general security cameras are installed at all stores in the US, the police has failed to get to culprits who killed Preet.
Manjit Singh, a resident of Patiala, was murdered in New Jersey in the US in 2004. Manjit was also a successful businessman there. Even after three years, his killers have not been traced. His family members here said they had lost hope that the US police would do anything to bring the guilty to book.
The bodies of Paramjit Singh Kalsi and Ravinder Singh Kalsi, two Punjabi hoteliers murdered in Sanpablo in California on December 27, 2007, will be reaching for cremation at Patiala in a few days. The families are alleging that the US authorities extend very little support to kin of Indians killed there. “We had to wait for more than a month to bring the bodies back to India,” they said.
The visa rules should be relaxed for the kin of those who were killed in the US as they were visiting the country just to claim the bodies of their family members, they said.
Kin of Punjabis killed in US rue govt apathy
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