Nearly a year after four Gujarati family members froze to death while attempting to enter the US near the Canada-US border; two agents were detained for helping illegal immigration, according to the police.
As per senior official statement, the agents from Kalol were detained by Ahmedabad crime branch officials in Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, and two other people from Canada and the US were listed as wanted in connection with an alleged scheme to have 11 people from Gujarat, including the family of four, enter the US illegally from Canada.
Jagdish Patel, his wife and two children from Dingucha village in Kalol taluka died apparently due to exposure to extreme cold conditions on the US-Canada border in January 2022.
As per Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Crime Branch) Chaitanya Mandlik, "the city crime branch has registered an offence in a case where the accused (agents) forced 11 people to walk in the snow in order to get them to illegally cross the US-Canada border, resulting in the death of four members of a family."
The investigation so far has revealed that the accused persons played a role in trying to get the 11 persons from Gujarat to illegally cross the international border (US-Canada), he said.