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Indian-origin bar owner on trial for allegedly raping teen in Singapore
Singapore: A 41-year-old Indian-origin bar owner went on trial at the Singapore High Court for the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl who worked for him in 2020, a media report said.…
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Man gets jail for racially attacking Indian-origin woman in Singapore
Singapore: A 32-year-old man in Singapore has been sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay 13.20 USD as compensation for racially insulting and kicking an Indian-origin woman in 2021.…
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Indian-origin man in UK who left neighbour with multiple facial fractures, jailed
London: A 35-year-old Indian-origin man in England has been jailed for nine years for attacking one of his neighbours with a wooden pole in 2022, leaving him with multiple serious facial fractures.…
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Indian-origin Singaporean jailed for 3 weeks, fined in drunk-driving case
Singapore: A 45-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean was jailed for three weeks and fined SGD 6,800 for drunk driving and abandoning his car on the road, trying to avoid a police roadblock in 2019.…
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Indian-origin fraudster jailed for 8 years for targeting elderly victims in UK
London: A 28-year-old Indian-origin fraudster who targeted elderly and vulnerable victims in a scam impersonating a police officer or a bank official has been sentenced by a London court to eight years…
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2 Indian-origin ministers likely to sue Singapore PM’s brother for defamation
Singapore: Singapore’s Indian-origin ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan have sent lawyers’ letters to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s brother, Lee Hsien Yang seeking an apology and damages for defamation. Yang, who…
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Indian-origin store clerk shot dead in US; teen suspects in custody
New York: A 36-year-old Indian-origin store clerk was shot dead during an apparent case of armed robbery in the US state of Georgia, and two juveniles were arrested in connection with the…
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Woman jailed for killing elderly Indian-origin patient in UK
London: A 56-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of an elderly Indian-origin patient while both were patients at a UK hospital has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. Philomena Wilson,…
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Indian-origin doctor who drove family off cliff in US barred from practising medicine
New York: A US court has barred a 41-year-old Indian-origin doctor from practising medicine as he is facing multiple attempted murder charges for driving his family off a cliff in California, a…
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Indian-origin nurse charged in death of 7-year-old in UK hospital
London: An Indian-origin nurse appeared in court for allegedly killing a seven-year-old boy at a private children’s hospital in Britain in 2016 by switching off his vital breathing device. Anuradha Bhupathiraju, 62,…
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Indian-origin father-son duo arrested for assaulting teenage girls in Canada
Toronto: An Indian-origin man and his son have been arrested and charged in Canada for allegedly assaulting, exploiting and extorting multiple teenage girls over several months. Gurpartap Singh Walia, 56, and his…
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Indian-origin man jailed for defrauding property buyers in UK
London: An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for fraud offences after he admitted to fleecing potential property buyers, many of them also of Indian origin, out of nearly…
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Indian-origin hacker gets 51 months jail for computer fraud in US
New York: A 38-year-old Indian-origin hacker from Virginia was sentenced to more than four years in prison for hacking into computers and stealing customer credit card numbers. Chirag Patel from Norfolk pleaded…
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Indian-origin man convicted for cocaine, cannabis smuggling in UK
London: An Indian-origin man and four others have been convicted for conspiring to supply drugs worth millions of pounds from the Netherlands to the UK and Ireland, following a National Crime Agency…
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Indian-origin police officer becomes highest-ranking South Asian woman in NYPD
New York: Captain Pratima Bhullar Maldonado, an Indian-origin police officer has become the highest-ranking South Asian woman in the New York Police Department, a position she was promoted to recently. Maldonado runs…
