Arrests Made in Indian Immigrants’ Border Death

• Police are attempting to detain two agents with bases in the US and Canada.
• The dead, which included a three-year-old child, were discovered frozen.
• The individuals who were arrested were “illegal immigration” agents.

In connection with the murders of four persons close to the US-Canada border in January 2022, Indian police have detained two guys.

The dead, which included a three-year-old child, were discovered frozen together in a field in Manitoba, Canada, 12 metres from the US border.

The individuals who were arrested, according to Gujarat state authorities, were “illegal immigration” agents, the state where the family came from.

In addition, police are attempting to detain two agents with bases in the US and Canada.

The family, which included Jagdish Patel, 39, Vaishaliben, 37, Vihangi, 11, and Dharmik, 3, was from the Dingucha village in Gujarat, where many residents desired to emigrate. Their horrific deaths, which occurred after they walked for hours in -35°C conditions, made headlines all around the world.

The Patels were among a group of 11 Gujaratis attempting to enter the United States. After crossing the border, US police detained the remaining seven members of the group.

Chaitanya Mandlik, a senior police official in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, told reporters on Monday that “the city crime branch has registered an offence in a case wherein the accused (agents) had forced 11 people to walk in the snow in a bid to get them to illegally cross the US-Canada border, resulting in the death of four members of a family.”

According to a news source, The Canadian Press, the individuals who were arrested are charged with “working as immigration agents, supplying the family members with documentation and assisting them get to the US.”

They are accused of human trafficking, criminal conspiracy, and negligent homicide that is not murder.

“The victims were transported to Toronto and then to Vancouver in Canada. Then the agents abandoned them in Manitoba’s province of Winnipeg, leaving them to travel to the US on their own “Mr. Mandlik was cited as saying by the Indian news agency PTI.

There is “no evidence to suggest the Patel family travelled to Vancouver,” Manitoba police told The Canadian Press.

In order to progress the investigation into the killings, the Canadian police further stated that they were collaborating with “foreign law enforcement partners.”

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