
Ottawa: Indian filmmaker Vijay Kumar is still not free to leave Canada. He has been detained since Wednesday and questioned by immigration authorities in Canada. Kumar has not been charged yet but will be defending himself in court for deportation. The filmmaker was detained in Canada just a day after being freed by US. Vijay served a 20-day jail term in Houston for carrying brass knuckles and jihadi literature in...

10:52 AM, Sep 18, 2010

Ottawa: Indian filmmaker Vijay Kumar has been detained once again, this time in Canada. Immigration authorities in Canada questioned the documentary filmmaker for 6 hours yet he was still not free to leave the country. All this took place just a day after he was freed by the US authorities and was set to return to India via Canada. Vijay Kumar had been arrested in the US for carrying jihadi...

10:43 AM, Sep 16, 2010

Washington: Documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, who was arrested in the US for carrying jihadi literature and brass knuckles, has been freed. Reports say Vijay Kumar is travelling to India via Canada. Kumar's departure marks an end to the tumultuous few weeks for him during which he was arrested and jailed for over 20 days in the US. Kumar had pleaded no contest to the charges of illegally carrying brass knuckles...

12:48 PM, Sep 15, 2010
Houston: Indian documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, who's been detained in the US and was to appear in a Houstan court on Friday for his immigration bail hearing, has been denied bond and ordered voluntary departure within 90 days. Kumar, a Mumbai resident was held at Houston International airport last week for allegedly carrying brass knuckles and jihadi literature in his luggage. He faces a jail term of up to 10...

07:32 AM, Sep 03, 2010
Houston: An Indian national has been arrested at Houston airport with jihadi literature. Mumbai resident Vijay Kumar was arrested on Friday at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston after a search of his baggage revealed jihadi books and diagrams. Forensic tests also detected explosives residue is his luggage. Security personnel reoprtedly found books on how to spy and assemble explosives in Kumar's luggage. Kumar told police that he was...

01:20 PM, Aug 24, 2010