Washington: An Indian software consultant, on a work visa in the US, was convicted by a Chicago court on Thursday of groping a woman while they were seated next to each other aboard an airplane.
Srinivasa S Erramilli, 45, remains free on bond pending sentencing, which has been set for April 26, 2013, by US District Judge Joan H Lefkow. He faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine. Incidentally he was convicted twice previously for nearly identical crimes.
Evidence at the trial showed that Erramilli was the last passenger to board a Southwest Airlines flight to Chicago's Midway Airport on June 14, 2011, and was seated in the only open seat available between the victim, who had chosen a window seat to sleep during the flight, and her husband, who had chosen an aisle seat to enable easier access during the flight.
The couple had travelled to Las Vegas for their 34th wedding anniversary, the Department of Justice said in a statement....
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01:37 AM, Dec 14, 2012
New Jersey: A four-year-old Indian-American boy was mowed down by a speeding car driven by a woman at a traffic intersection here, police said. The victim, Dhyanesh, son of Balaji Jeyakannan, was struck by the car and killed on the spot at the junction of Jefferson Avenue and Central Avenue yesterday. The mishap occurred when the child, holding his mother Nagarani Nagarajan's hand, was crossing the road after the stop...
11:48 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Hyderabad: Police on Monday arrested a person for defaming a former woman colleague by hacking her email-IDs and creating fake profiles on Facebook after she refused his marriage proposal. The accused was identified as Sai Kumar, who works as an engineer in an IT firm in United States. Sai Kumar was nabbed by Cyber Crime wing of Crime Investigation Department from the Hyderabad Airport on Monday morning, CID Additional DGP...
08:26 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Hyderabad: A US-based techie, who returned to the city on Saturday, killed himself on Sunday by consuming poison inside a cab on his way to his sisters house in Kukatpally. Police suspect marital discord to be behind his suicide. Police said, E Anil Kumar, 30, stayed in a hotel after he returned from the US. He hired a cab to meet his sister when she called him home but consumed...
01:47 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after the Women Police Station at Begumpet registered a dowry harassment case against an Australia-based techie Santosh Raj, the police arrested him and seized his passport on Friday. Police said, Santosh, 32, was asked to visit the police station for questioning and after his wife's statement, was taken into custody for harassing her for additional dowry. The accused is a manager in Deloitte Corporate Consulting Services in...
12:44 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Chennai: A 28-year-old software engineer was arrested on Monday for cheating as many as 18 candidates promising them jobs in a popular software company and cheating them to the tune of Rs 36 lakh. The sleuths of Central Crime Branch arrested the engineer following complaints that he had taken Rs 2 lakh cash from each candidate and had mailed them fake appointment orders. He had allured them with an online...
02:35 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Hyderabad: In a major breakthrough in Infosys employee Neelima Yeruvas death case, Raidurgam police reportedly took three employees of the IT major into custody late Thursday night. The trio are being interrogated in connection with the death of the techie who had fallen from the multi-level parking on Tuesday night. It is said that police took the trio into custody after verifying the CCTV footage at the parking lot and...
12:11 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Hyderabad: A 30-year-old Telugu man has become brain dead on diving into a swimming pool and hitting the floor in his apartment complex at Greenville in South Carolina state of the USA. Suresh Medishetty, an IT professional, drowned in the pool on July 17 and was rescued by a neighbour. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors said that his brain had suffered irreparable damage. It is unclear if...
03:55 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Bangalore: A 24-year old techie, reported missing after he went on a trek in the Bannerghatta National Park near Bangalore, was on Monday found dead and is suspected to have been trampled by an elephant, police said. The body of Sathvik Shastry, a senior business analyst with a software firm, was found in Ragihalligudda in forest area near Anekal taluk in Bangalore Rural district, police said, adding he was suspected...
08:03 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Bangalore: The body of Pawan Kumar, the 26-year-old techie from Karnataka who allegedly committed suicide at a hotel in New Jersey last month, was brought at the Bangalore International Airport (BIA) in Bangalore by an Indian Airlines flight. "We have received Pawan Kumar's body at BIA," Pawan's father Anjaiah told PTI in Bangalore. Four officials of Cognizant, the IT company where Pawan worked in the US, accompanied the body from...
01:59 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Housed in a makeshift thatched hut was Thattukada Reloaded and a few steps ahead was Ustad Hotel'. Kappa and Karimeen pollichathu sat alongside yummy chocolate pudding and the Plantain stem punch served for a delectable nadan thirst quencher. The roofed patio of Bhavani building in Technopark resembled a busy food street on Monday morning as techies queued up at the stalls put up by UST Global employees as part...
04:09 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New York: A 26-year-old Indian employee at an IT firm, who was accused of murdering an American woman, was found dead after he allegedly committed suicide due to suspected drug overdose at a New Jersey hotel. Pawan Kumar Anjaiah, 26, a software engineer, was in the US on an assignment with IT firm Cognizant. Delaware state police had issued arrest warrants against Anjaiah, charging him with first degree murder and...
11:20 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Bangalore: A 25-year-old software engineer was found dead in his car at Mahadevapura area with his head covered in a plastic bag and his body wrapped in cellophane tape, police said. The man, Srirag, hailing from Kozhikode in Kerala, was working for Hewlett Packard in the city, police said. They said the post-mortem had been conducted and the body has been kept at the government-run Bowring hospital for his parents...
09:11 PM, May 22, 2012
Hyderabad: More than a month after the mysterious disappearance of a software engineer from Bangalore in the city, Cyberabad police found the remnants of the techie's body in Hyderabad on Thursday. Bachu Satish (24), son of autorickshaw driver Shankaraiah and native to Ramagundam in Karimnagar district, was brutally killed. He was throttled to death, his body was set on fire twice and the remains were dumped in a drain. His...
07:52 AM, Mar 17, 2012
CHENNAI: A Sunday evening at the beach turned tragic for three software engineers from Bangalore, when they were swept away by waves off Thiruvanmiyur coast. Police identified the victims as G Praveen (21) of Gayathri Nagar in Bangalore, D Sakthi (21) of Somavarpet near Kudagu and N Anand Bhushan (21) of Senrayapatinam in Hasan district. Police said the victims drowned when they tried to retrieve a tennis ball floating on...
09:51 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Pune: The Cyber Crime cell of the police arrested a 29-year-old woman techie who had created obscene profiles of a boutique owner and uploaded these on three adult websites. According to the suspect, she had done this because the boutique owner had provided her clothes which caused her disappointment when she wore them on her honeymoon. The techie, who lives in Phursungi, is originally from Mumbai. The police said the...
05:20 PM, Sep 09, 2011
Bangalore: The gruesome murder of 29-year-old software professional in the upmarket J P Nagar colony in Bangalore has sent shock waves. Payal Surekha, who was working as a technical associate with DELL, was found lying on the bed with her throat slit on Friday evening. Payal, a native of Orissa, had joined DELL a month back. Police say that the techie could have been murdered by someone she knew. “She...
08:02 AM, Dec 18, 2010
Chennai: An Infosys employee, working at the company's Mahindra World City centre here, has been missing since Monday. Software professional Avik Mukherjee, 23, lived with his roommates at a rented accommodation in Singaperumal Koil, 40 kilometres from the state capital. According to his roommates, Avik was last seen on Monday. Avik's roommate Devanjan Bhattacharya had informed his father Bhrigu Mukherjee that Avik did not return after he left home at...
03:30 PM, Aug 13, 2010
Twenty-five-year-old Arun Kumar was killed in Connecticut on Tuesday during a violent robbery. ...
10:56 PM, Jul 14, 2010
The two physically assaulted their teenage domestic help. ...
02:27 AM, Dec 30, 2009
