NRI News Archives

Cocaine in cement bags: Indian-origin Gurvinder Singh arrested in Australia for running international smuggling network

Indian-origin Australian Gurvinder Singh arrested in Sydney for running international drug smuggling. (Photo: NSW Police) Gurvinder Singh, a 42-year-old Indian-origin Australian man, has been arrested after two years of multi-agency investigation for allegedly masterminding an international drug racket that smuggle 20 million illegal cigarettes and nearly half a tonne of drugs into Sydney, the Australia […]

‘Felt completely trapped’: Indian student scammed in US by imposters who posed as ICE officers, told her she would be deported

Scammers in US targeted Indian-origin student, told her she would be arrested and then deported. Shreya Bedi, an Indian student, was deceived by scammers who posed as immigration officers who told her that she was violating immigration laws. The imposters forced her into purchasing $5000 worth of gift cards as ‘bond’ payments to avoid arrest […]

Indian-origin man pinned to ground by cop in Australia, wife screams; police chief say it was not wrong

Indian-origin man Gaurav Kundi assaulted by cops in Australia, brain, neck nerves damaged. (Photo: 9news) A 42-year-old Indian-origin man, Gaurav Kundi, was pinned down to the Payneham Road in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs while he was being arrested by the police. His wife Amritpal Kaur said police slammed his head against the car and also on […]

Indian-origin man in Carmel asks his staff one question, lands in jail for conspiracy to kill wife

Indian man Darshan Soni has been arrested in Carmel for plotting to kill wife for several months. Darshan Soni, an Indian-origin man in Carmel, Indiana, was arrested after a brief investigation into a question that he asked one of his employees unraveled several conspiracies that he had been hatching to kill his wife. According to […]

Indian-origin man in California pleads guilty to scamming DoorDash of $2.5M

An Indian-origin man scammed DoorDash by creating fake food orders. 30-year-old Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, a Southern Californian man of Indian-origin, has pleaded guilty for conspiring to steal around $2.5 million from food delivery company DoorDash. Devagiri and three others were indicted by a federal jury in August and were arrested in October, Federal prosecutors […]