Pragnesh Desai, NRI loses
US passport and arrested in the murder case of model girl
October 16, 2003
Bombay: US has revoked the passport of an Indian American, Pragnesh
Desai, despite an Indian court acquitting him of the charge of murdering
his fiancée.
A letter issued to Desai by American citizen services in Mumbai and
said, 'The Department of State has requested this office to inform you
that it has revoked passport No 093558945 issued to you on September
4, 1996, at the Philadelphia Passport Agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and any other US passport you may possess, whether issued to you in
your true identity or not.'
Court acquits US-based Indian arrested for murder of model. An Indian-American
man was detained in Ahmedabad on Feb. 17 in connection with the death
of a New Jersey fashion model, whose body was found by a highway earlier
this month, Associated Press reported.