Gandhinagar, 20 May 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today addressed NRI Gujaratis in 12 cities of America and Canada live through video conferencing. Presented above is the video of Shri Narendra Modi’s speech.

New York, 19 May 2012

Prominent NRI Gujarati and advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Shri Sam Pitroda was honored with a Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa by Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly).

Shri Pitroda in his key-note address urged nearly one thousand undergraduate and graduate students to recognize technology as the key to social change and inclusive growth, not only economic prosperity.

Shri Pitroda said, “how do we use connectivity to address the challenges of the 21st century? India has been growing at a rate of 8-9% and everywhere, I see technology as the key driver.To me, technology is a great social leveler. Technology is the key in the 21st century.”

“The challenge of today is inclusive growth, access and equity. We need affordable, scalable, and sustainable solutions,” Shri Pitroda further said.

He advised the student that hard work and discipline is the key to their success, and there is no shortcut.

Having received an honor of a Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, Sam Pitroda joins a distinguished list of past honorary degree recipients including Dr. Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy.

Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly Polytechnic University), an affiliate of New York University, is a comprehensive school of engineering, applied sciences, technology and research, and is rooted in a 157-year tradition of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship: i-squared-e. The institution, founded in 1854, is the nation’s second-oldest private engineering school. In addition to its main campus in New York City at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn, it also offers programs at sites throughout the region and around the globe. Globally, NYU-Poly has programs in Israel, China and is an integral part of NYU’s campus in Abu Dhabi. For more information, visit www.poly.edu.

Gandhinagar/New Jersey, 16 May 2012

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will talk to Gujaratis and other Indians settled in the United States of America (USA) and Canada in a live show through satellite from Gandhinagar on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 6.30 a.m. Indian Standard Time (IST).

In all, 12 cities in USA and Canada will be simultaneously connected through videoconferencing. As per USA and Canada local time it will be on Saturday, May 19 around 8.30 p.m. in those countries.

It is in response to longstanding invitation of Gujaratis settled there that Mr. Modi will be talk to them about the progress of Gujarat in various sectors. The live talk can also be viewed on www.gujaratindia.com. Precise link this click here .

The main function has been held at Shri Swaminarayan temple, 200 Penhom Ave, Secaucus, NJ 07094.

Modi’s speech time: US Time Zone: Date – 19th May 2012, Time: 8:30 pm onwards, and Indian Time Zone: Date – 20th May 2012, Time: 6.30 am onwards

Major Participating Cities: Chicago, New Jersey, Atlanta, New York, Columbus, Toronto, Houston Texas, Los Angeles, Tampa, Phoenix

For more information, write to gujaratdin2012@gmail.com

Petlad, 12 May 2012

Chief Minister Narendra Modi today described the Krishi Mahotsav being held in Gujarat for the last eight years as the biggest ever campaign to revamp agricultural economy by any government in any State or the Centre

Since land size is unlikely to increase, he said, increasing productivity or crop yield per unit of land is the key to increase agricultural production. Nearly one lakh government officials, besides agricultural scientists, veterinary doctors and other experts, fan out to length and breadth of the state in this heat and dust during the height of summer for about a month, personally explaining the benefits of latest farm techniques to the farming community. The campaign has received unprecedented welcome in rural areas.

Mr. Modi was addressing a zonal-level Krishi Mahotsav-2102 at Petlad in Anand district, the other five districts in the zone being Ahmedabad, Kheda, Vadodara, Dahod and Panchmahals. He distributed the Sardar Patel Krishi Puraskar to progressive farmers, honoured them and distributed kits to some farmers as token.

He said that Gujarat Government has evaluated the socio-economic benefits of its pro-farmer and pro-farm campaign by third parties. The success stories include 11 per cent growth in agriculture as against the national average of three per cent, adopting farm-to-fabric-to-fashion policy to increase cotton production, extracting oil from tobacco seeds for medicine, eradicating diseases in cattle in 25,000 cattle medical camps held in the state during the last eight years, reviving dairy industry in Saurashtra and Kutch region, and emphasis on value-addition like horticulture and tree farming. He hit back at those spreading canard that farm land is being usurped in the name of development. If it were so, could there be agricultural revolution without land, he asked.

The Chief Minister regretted that the Central Government continued to remain insensitive to India’s agricultural needs. The extent of the Centre’s unconcern for people could be gauged from the fact that 24 hours have passed since the families of Indians assaulted in Angola have urged the Prime Minister, but no action has been taken so far.

Had Sardar Patel been the Prime Minister, the entire Indian farmers would have been as progressive and prosperous like that of Gujarat. Even Lal Bahadur Shastri’s one call to farmers filled up the godowns of the country with food grains, Mr.Modi said.

Minister of State for Law Pradeepsinh Jadeja said horticulture production in the state has increased from 51-lakh tones to 200-lakh tones, return on agriculture sector reached Rs.80,000-crore.
Minister of State for Tourism Jitendra Sukhadia said wheat production in the state has increased from 10 lakh tones to 50-lakh tones since 2001-02, while area under horticulture has increased from 6.91-lakh ha to 14.04-lakh ha. Parliamentary Secretary Sundarsinh Chauhan said the beauty of scientific farming is maximizing output with minimum inputs.

Mr. Rajendra Phalke from Maharashtra was specialy present at the function.

Prominent among those present on the occasion were Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas, Education Minister Raman Vora, Minister of State Praful Patel, State Planning Board Chairman Bhupendrasinh Chudasma, Chief Whip in State Assembly Pankaj Desai, Deputy Chief Whip Ambalal Rohit, MLAs Jyotsnaben Patel, Shirish Patel, Devusinh Chauhan, ex-MP Deepak Patel, ex-Minister Bimal Shah and District Panchayat President Jasubha Solanki.

Ahmedabad, 11 May 2012

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has in a letter today urged Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to take urgent effective steps to check inhuman on Indian workers, including Gujaratis, in Angola Congo by private sector industrialists and policemen.

According to the details available, around 40 youngsters from Gujarat are trapped at the Sumbe Cement Plant located 40 Kms away from Sumbe City in Angola, Africa. Chennai based company ETA Star International L.L.C Company had lured these 40 youths to Angola with the promise of high salaries. The workers of the Cement plant were on a strike as they had not been given salaries since six months. Following the strike, the police fired bullets on the workers and beat them up. While some of the workers were put in jail, others have taken shelter in the forests. Satishbhai Marfat, the Baroda based agent of ETA Star International had sent youths from Gujarat to Africa.

By DeshGujarat News, Bhuj/Ahmedabad, 23 March, 2012

A group of six British youths will begin their 1800-km long rickshaw tour starting from Gujarat’s Kutch district on 26th of March, 2012.

British youths Nirav Shah, Janvi Shah, Dilisha Patel, Kushan Shah, Bhavik Haria, Kavi Shah, Nishil Shah, Raveena Nagaria and Aarti Shah are aged between 19-24. Their journey from Kutch to Himachal Pradesh will involve three rickshaws.

The journey is aimed at collecttion of fund for poor school children of Himachal Pradesh based school run by Buddhist Culture Asociation.

A unique rickshaw travel will start at Kutch’s Madhapar based Navchetan blind people asociation premises where school project is funded by Car Education Trust. A 14-day journey would pass through the areas of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Hariyana and reach Manali in Himachal Pradesh.

Rickshawwalas journey can be tracked on www.rickshawalas.com

Waghjipur, 6 March 2012

A 16-member pipeband from London today performed in eastern Gujarat’s tribal Waghjipur village.

Shree Muktajeevan Pipe Band London is formed by England based followers of Maninagar Swaminarayan Gaadi. The band ocasssionaly visits Gujarat to perform at religious functions of Maninagar Swaminarayan branch. There are doctors and engineers who give service in this band.

This time the band has arrived to perform at Shree Muktajivan Swamibapa, Panchamahal padarpan sashthipurti mahotsav in tribal Dahod district where Swaminarayan Gaadi runs schools and other institutions serving poor tribals.

Reprentatives of SAARC countries like Srilanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and India graced the function.

Ahmedabad, 22 February, 2012

The U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Francisco Sánchez is in Gujarat today leading the first-ever Ports and Maritime Technology Trade Mission to India.

Twelve U.S. ports and maritime companies are accompanying Mr. Francisco Sánchez on the mission, with the goal of finding Indian partners to help them participate in India’s various port expansion projects.

Under Secretary Sánchez witnessed the signing of a sister port MOU between the Port of Baltimore and the Adani Group’s Mundra Port. The MOU, which was signed at the Adani Group’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, will facilitate mutual cooperation in port management and port planning.

Later in the day Under Secretary Sanchez addressed students and faculty at the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) in Gandinagar, Gujarat. During his remarks Under Secretary Sánchez noted that PDPU has ongoing collaborations with U.S. institutions such as Texas A&M University, Georgia Tech University, and the University of Oklahoma, and that PDPU has sent nearly 100 of its students on study tours to the U.S.

Under Secretary Sánchez encouraged PDPU to continue fostering Indo-U.S. linkages in the educational sector and he reaffirmed that the United States is committed to India and that the U.S. values the lasting contributions of the Indian people. He also noted that Indian students will play a big role in shaping the 21st century.

Under Secretary Sánchez leads the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA). ITA is at the forefront of President Obama’s National Export Initiative, an Executive Order signed in 2009 which aims to double U.S. exports by 2014.

Polk County, Florida, 28 January 2012

Four NRI Gujaratis are now facing charge after Polk County detectives busted two convenient stores owned by them for selling synthetic cannabinoid substances, also known as K-2.

The synthetic drugs, which are banned in Florida, were found at The Beverage Castle on Lake Shore Way in Lake Alfred and The Sunoco Superway #6 Store on Dundee Road in Dundee.

32-year-old Kinjal Patel and 34-year-old Viral Patel, owners of the Sunoco, and 25-year-old Kelvin Patel and 51-year-old Vishnubhai Patel, owners of the Beverage Castle, face several charges.

They include: Possession of a controlled substance, sale of a controlled substance and possession with intent to sell.

Kinjal Patel is also accused of offering the drugs to an undercover female detective in exchange for sexual acts.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the county has been checking convenience stores for the drugs following the death of a teenager weeks ago.

Ahmedabad, 22 January 2011

When you are away from Gujarat, only way to keep in touch is with families back home, media news and direct communication. You rarely get correct picture. Thanks to sustained campaign by government not to mention direct communication from CM, Kutch was on our mind as we were planning winter vacations. Still a last push was required. I have to be candid here that brand Gujarat got huge boost when they roped in Megastar Amitabh Bacchan who has unmatched impact on the psyche of Indians. We were not exception and decided to follow his footsteps at Kutch. However we were still very apprehensive. The Hype was tall as mountain, would ground reality match the substance was the question on our mind.

With quick facilitation from NRG division and even more impressive support from TGCL especially by Mr. Farooq Pathan and his team, we were all ready to embark upon the journey to rediscover New Gujarat.

We landed 5th night at Bhuj excited to participate in RanoUtsav (the desert festival). While interacting with officers there, we realized we can make a trip to Dholaveera on first day and join the group on next day. This added to our excitement as this was a long cherished dream. With family of four which included two kids of 11 and 5 years old it was a challenging task, but comfortable journey on reliable roads from Ahmedabad to Bhuj boosted our confidence. When Gujarat’s administration invites industry, they mention of robust infrastructure, it was for us to see all the way upto desert. One thing that accompanied even in the middle of nowhere place was high tension lines for eternity assuring electricity in the most remote place.

So here we were setting out for Dholavira at 8:30 in the morning from Bhuj. The route was roughly known; we had to go to Bhachau then look for Rapar, and then head towards Khadir Island. The urge to visit was so acute that we ignored all warnings of not so pleasant journey. Upto Bhacahu, we came across few large factories of Euro Ceramics, Panasonic and AMW motors and few lush green orchards. We wondered, If there are so many agro activities prevalent, why Kutch is known as desert area. Later we learned that meaning of Kutch is “Wet and Dry” in Sanskrit. We were to see some more evidence of the same as we move forward. But for a while let me take you back to the road connecting Bhachau to Rapar. This was the most difficult part of the journey. A single lane; dusty road, which led us to labyrinth of Kutch villages wadding our way out, seeking directions as we see any villager. Thanks to Toyota for making something like Innova. Had it been not for that car, the journey would have much tougher.

Suddenly we realised we forgot to buy medicine for my daughter at Bhuj and were just hoping it does not get aggravated on the way. And out of blue, we found we are passing by one large and clean dispensary. Curiosity drew us out and hoping to take break, we got down. To our surprise we found the clinic was running on charity, they did not charge us for the cough medicine and

comforted us for further journey. And I don’t think so this people had anything to do with Gujarat Tourism or Narendra Modi’s plans. This was pure and brute Kutch hospitality for us. Our driver meanwhile found some Kuch Burger (Dabeli) and as we embarked upon the journey offered us too. If I borrow Terrence’s words it was indeed Chummeshwari. Our spirits were lifted and we set out again on labyrinths. After seeking few more directions, we were suddenly on the well layered four lane highway with proper divider. And is if to revitalize us further, we were greeted by the signboard of Dholavira. I was following the map through T and counting every village. When we passed through Lundroni, the last hamlet before the great desert of Kutch begins; my heartbeats were running very fast. The time-sleep was going to be of staggering five millenniums.

The Kutch means something that intermittently becomes Wet and Dry, the amphibian nature of the terrain makes Kutch one of the most remarkable places on earth. The rain water fills the desert and as winter approach they become shallow giving a feeling of light BLUE Ocean. When they dry up, they turn Snow WHITE and as the summer approaches they become RED. Unlike other deserts of sand dunes, Kutch is full of colours depending on the season. As we left Lundroni, the map went blank and we were supposed to be in the middle of the desert. While images of Dholavira were playing in our mind, what greeted us on desert was something unbelievable. Unique and strange place appeared out of nowhere. We were on the road which was surrounded by water. Either side of the horizon, only thing we could see was blue, tranquil and calm waters. As if Ocean was split to make a way. Either side was just breathtaking scene. We were having a sort of “Deja Vu”. Not sure when have we seen this before. Until Eureka stuck my wife and she recalled the last scene of Three Idiots. Only difference was, we were not in movie hall and we had many exciting actors as you will meet them soon.

We were hardly in the car, we saw something spectacular. May be my words are not enough to explain and I would recommend everyone to see them by themselves. The horizon was merging into blue calm water blurring the line as white sky melting into light blue waters. In this backdrop, what we could see was birds, birds and birds. Even as armatures, we could count few types of Flamingos, Pelicans and Seagulls. We got down of the car, without realizing, as if some strong magnetic power was drawing us out.

Just imagine the thrill of seeing hundreds of migratory birds exploding from the shallows of Kutch wetland. One does not have to be a professional bird watcher to be amazed by the colour and magnificence of these harmonious free creatures. Fortunately, even though it was noon, we could see hoards of them. Watching them in Singapore Zoo and in reality was vastly different experience.

Gujarat CM, Narendra Modi always says “Come to Gujarat where life is celebration”. May be he did not count these innocent birds. These beautiful creatures were telling us the same thing, saying don’t crib, enjoy, serve your purpose, relax and don’t complain.

After clicking close to 100 times, trying to drink the atmosphere as much as we can, we hurried into our car. Biding adieu to those creature, we were almost speechless on further journey as Javed Akthar’s Poem of ZNMD (Pighle neelam sa behta ye sama, Neeli neeli si khamoshiyan, na kahin hai zameen na kahin aasmaan,) played in our subliminal mind. This experience in on word was “mesmerizing”.

As an average school student from Ahmedabad, class studies never interested me. However reading about history and especially Indology was my favourite hobby. I used to lap every opportunity to visit places like Lothal not to say Indology museums anywhere. As a self-declared amateur Indologist and an avid follower of Indian archaeology, for me this trip was like highest pilgrimage.

For the starters, the significance of Indus Civilization was its sheer spread not limited to one or two rivers. The excavated evidence range from areas as far as cities in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, in India the traces are found in UP all the way upto Maharashtra with heavy concentration being on the ancient river of Saraswati basin passing through, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and finally to Gujarat. The total area of 800,000 Sq KM was much larger than the Mesopotamia and Egypt put together. Even though they did not build Great Walls, Pyramids, Ziggurats (or maybe we haven’t found them yet), they concentrated in building one of the most urban areas for their citizens. The uniformity in building, measures, architecture, over such a vast area simply amazes. Their town planning and engineering was quite remarkable. While their obsession with water and hygiene for their citizen dazzles us, they also left many puzzles, as the language is still un-deciphered. The discovery of Dholavira was significant as you will read further. All the above thoughts were running through mind when we were rushing to see the site. Next day at Dhordo I came across amazing book written on Dholaveera by Mr. Varun Maira, Gujarat cadre IAS officer. While visiting Dholavira was one of the life time experience; reading that book made it eternal.

Coming back to journey, we hurriedly crossed the desert and went straight to Toran had humble lunch and headed straight to ASI Museum of Dholavira. And it was beginning of the astounding experience. Truth is stranger than fiction. How in the world’s most remote place you could have something so magnificent with far reaching impact on human evolution story.

Khadir Island is spread across 35 X 40 KM and is surrounded by desert. The excavated area of Dholavira is around 250 Acres on the western border of island. If you consider the largest and well excavated Indus city in Indian site Lothal is only spread accross 20 acres, the size here is stuns. As you wad through your way in these remains and open your mind’s eye may be you can feel the bustling markets, voice of water flow, and many more vibrant activities these natives were involved in. Dholavira in one word was extremely “captivating”.

Even if you are not so keen follower or obsessed like me, I would still recommend visiting this place for two reasons on why Dholavira is one of the most remarkable places on the map of Human ancient history.

While Reading fantastic book JAYA (Retelling of Mahabharata) by Dr. Devdutta Pattanik, I came across one very interesting perspective of Indian Philosophy. When Mahabharat War ends, Krishna advises Yudhistir to seek wisdom from Bhishma who is on the deathbed of Arrows. The idea behind

this gesture is that “Humans have limited life but knowledge is eternal and it outlives death”. He also sites similar example when Ram and Laxman visits deafted Ravan to seek his knowledge as antagonist was considered highly learned of all shastras. Ravan willingly parts his knowledge before leaving this world.

I recited above anecdotes as the tangible and intangible heritage of Dholavira in a way leaves behind ample knowledge and hints for us.

In this sense, people of Dholavira it seems were one of the foremost advanced civilizations with respect to water management. Their know-how on water management and hydraulic engineering developed to manage and redirect the water flow in and around the site, was simply superior. The challenge must have been daunting as the Manhar and Manhas (the rivers flowing around this place), were only seasonal and no match to Tigris, Euphretis or mighty Nile. Not only you can see the way hydrology concepts were followed to store, filter, and keep water cool, but the whole town planning was done as if to secure maximum water. The last bond movie, Quantum of Solace was focused on terrorist organization tries to take world ransom by taking control of water resources. May be in the foreseeable future, Water could be the most precious natural resource. I guess the people of Dholaveera did have trick or two and were much advanced then we are now in conserving, harnessing this resource.

The most curious trait of Indus-Saraswati civilization (also known as Harappa or Meluha civilization) is non-deciphered language. While ample is known about their contemporise from Mesopotamia and Egypt due to their deciphered language, very few intangible aspects are known about this civilization. So far many seals were found with some script inscription on them. But the size of seal was extremely small making the script symbols very small leaving many questions on the existing of language in this civilization. Some people argued that the script used was never a language as there are many languages in the region which are only verbal like kutchi, sindhi etc and do not have script.

Archaeology world and especially the Indian Ancient history specialists were in pleasant surprise when world’s largest and oldest signboard was unearthed from the Northern Gate of Citadel. A three meters large board with 10 large inscriptions of letters with the size of 35 x 25 CM was huge ever for Indus. The letters were made of white Gypsum and it was a signboard which people could see from far. One thing became absolutely evident that if the large signboard was erected here, it was for people to see and read it from far hence the argument that scripted language did not exist died its natural death. To visit the place where sign board was a

We thanked our guide and host Ravjibhai (Native of Dholavira and whose fate is linked with excavation here) without his guidance we would not have understood this place. Only sorry feeling we had was when we learned that the world’s most exciting excavated discovery is still buried at the place of excavation without proper protection and is not moved to safer place. In another country they would consider this as treasure of highest value, may be ASI has their hands tied down. For amateur like me, I thought it would be better to give it to state authorities, may be they will take care of this infrastructure better. Another sad part was that excavation is stopped since 2005. Wish they dig further to unearth more to enlighten humankind.

We were feeling quite enriched at firsthand experience of awesome hydraulic engineering technologies and design, some of them simply looked futuristic. We surely had time sleep but were unable to make out whether it was to the past of future.

As we embarked on our journey further to Dhordo, I was awestruck by this place called Kutch. It has been there and will be there. But if not for initiative of current CM and his administration, would I have ever bothered to spend time here? How much thankful we were. read next article.

Writer is a current affair analyst who studies Gujarat affairs in international perspective. Next part will continue with our experience at Dhordo

Ahmedabad, 21 January 2012

Ahmedbad’s Sawan Rajnikant Trivedi and Guramrit Pal are among four arrested in human trafficking racket by Delhi police.

This has exposed a big racket of taking the youths of Gujarat illegally to America via Guatemala.

The serious aspect of this expose is that according to Delhi police a number of youths from Gujarat have lost their lives in Guatemala and other places in a bid to illegally sneak into the US.

The racket was unearthed after Delhi police seized 105 passports from a bag at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on January 2 this year.

A number of youths from Gujarat have lost their lives in Guatemala and other places in a bid to illegally sneak into the US, according to Delhi Police, which has been on trail of human traffickers following the seizure of 105 passports from a bag of Ahmedabad’s Ranip based Sawan Rajnikant Trivedi at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on January 2 this year. Of the 105 passports seized, 84 were issued from Regional Passport Office in Ahmedabad while one was issued from Surat. Trivedi was arrested, and after investigation exposed a major human trafficking racket.

Trivedi, who was kidnapped for ransom in 2006 in London, had allegedly sneaked in the baggage from Guatemala to Delhi via Istanbul. An MBA from Thames Velly University, London, he made a fortune despite coming from a lower middle class family. His father is a driver.

Reddy from Hyderabad financed the agents from Gujarat. “Reddy has visited Guatemala and other areas and studied how human trafficking takes place there. He knows five agents in Gujarat, while he was in touch with at least four other agents in Mumbai and even Andhra Pradesh. The accused Gurmeet Pal alias Pali is a farmer’s son and an international Kabbadi player. He was posted at Guatemala for two years and hobnobbed with the local groups to helps his “clients” cross the border,” said DCP (IGI airport) R A Sanjeev.

Trivedi used to charge around `6-12 lakh for facilitating entry into Guatemala and `25-30 lakh for the U.S. The youngsters, mostly from Punjab and Gujarat – between the age group of 18-30 years – were available in hordes to strike deals with the agents.

The police are yet to arrest the 11 others involved from different parts of the country and have issued non-bailable warrants against them. The gang also facilitated entry into Nicaragua, Brazil and other countries, it is claimed.

The young illegal immigrants travelled to New Delhi from their home states and then boarded flights to Guatemala via Istanbul on valid passports and the agents used to get their entry to the country through visa on arrival.

In Guatemala, the Indian agents handed over the passengers to Spanish and Mexican groups who then helped them cross over to the U.S.

However, the agents retained the passports of all their customers and came back to India to extort pending payments from the families. After receiving the payments, they handed over the passports to family members who sent them back to their relative in the U.S.

Once inside the U.S., the illegal immigrants would fan out across the country, often relying on relatives and acquaintances already there to arrange jobs and housing.

‘The agents used to bear the expenses of advocates or attorneys if there was any risk in the U.S.,’deputy commissioner of police R.A. Sanjeev said.

The police managed to identify all the accused after they scanned the 105 passports and found that one of the passport holders, Praveen Bhai Mohandas Patel, had come back to India from Guatemala on a scanned passport in 2011.

He was arrested in 2011 and his statement revealed the gang of agents active in Gujarat, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Punjab. Trivedi’s name also surfaced in the statement and that’s how the police managed to trace the rest of the accused.

According to police, most of the passengers sneaked into the US like this in 2010-11 and the fate of many is unknown to even their parents.

Also read: He dropped 29 U.S. crazy Gujaratis in Guatemala, and returned