The US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an Indian man for multiple offences including the sexual assault of a minor. The accused is an undocumented immigrant in America and has been identified as Vodela Yashaswi Kottapalli.
"Vodela Yashaswi Kottapalli, a criminal illegal alien from India, has pending charges for sexual assault and larceny in New Jersey. We'll keep him in custody pending removal proceedings." ICE said in a post on X.
ICE also called Kottapalli a "child rapist", adding that the Indian man was accused of sexual assault of a child under 13 years of age, shoplifting and public disorder.
Previously, ICE had also shared details last December of an Indian truck driver involved in a fatal motorway accident in Oregon that killed two people in the United States.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Kumar entered the country "illegally" through Arizona in November 2022 and was subsequently granted work authorisation and a commercial driving license by California state authorities.
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The case followed several similar accidents involving Indian nationals driving heavy goods vehicles in America. In recent months, US authorities have highlighted at least three other fatal crashes involving undocumented Indian lorry drivers in Florida and California.
Formed in 2003 through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the former US Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ICE now has more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel in more than 400 offices in the United States and around the world.
(With Agency Inputs