Actress Freida Pinto says growing up in Mumbai she feared the threat of being raped. Speaking to CNN’s Erin Brunett, Pinto talked about reading news reports on rape incidents, but did not recollect reading about any follow up on them and confessed of always being in fear. “This might just happen to me,” Frieda said on The Outlook, which aired Jan. 14. In another incident, eerily similar to the Dec.
A Queens, N.Y. woman accused of pushing an Indian man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim has been found fit to stand trial.
– CHICAGO A federal judge on Jan. 17 sentenced a Chicago immigration consultant to 14 years in prison for his role in supporting the Pakistani terrorist group that worked with Pakistan's intelligence service to carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks and plot a follow-up strike in Denmark.
A California woman pleaded guilty Jan. 16 to defrauding customers around the country by promising them fraudulent debt consolidation services using call-centers based in India. Sharanjit Kaur, 36, of Fresno, Calif., pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, according to a press release from the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California.
A 28-year-old man accused of killing his father at their home in Mount Holly, N.C., was apprehended Jan. 14, days after a statewide warrant was issued for his arrest. Jiten Patel is accused of shooting his father multiple times in the head on Jan. 11. The motive for the killing is not yet known but police told the judge at his arraignment Jan. 14 that the son had broken into the family’s store and items were taken.
On the evening of December 26, as an Indian government-chartered jet was heading to Singapore with a critically injured New Delhi gang rape victim on board, the teenage survivor of another gang rape was taking her own life.
In the Ramayana, an ancient Hindu scripture, even when the evil Ravana abducts Lord Rama’s wife Sita, her abductor treats her with respect. But thousands of years after the scripture was written, we are still seeing women in India treated with a profound disrespect of their dignity.
