Online campaign by Kuchibhotla's kin to punish killer

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Mar 21, 2017, 11:57 IST

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An IndianAmerican relative of hate crime victim Srinivas Kuchibhotla is pressing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to prosecute the suspect Adam Purinton to the fullest extent of law.

Online campaign by Kuchibhotla's kin to punish killer

Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

HYDERABAD: An Indian-American relative of hate crime victim Srinivas Kuchibhotla is pressing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to prosecute the suspect Adam Purinton to the fullest extent of law.
Vindhya Adapa of Priceton, New Jersey, who has been to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a former legal intern at United Nations, started an online petition that will be forwarded to the FBI seeking such prosecution in the Olathe crime.“I found out that Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the 32-year-old Indian man brutally murdered in Kansas in ahate crime, is a distant relative of mine through marriage. I was shocked and a little numb after the fact, as I have never met him and I did not know this,“ Vindhya said on her Facebook.
Urging people to sign the petition she said, “Being in a country with the most lax gun rules on earth, as a deranged and racist lunatic, the suspect was easily able to get a gun and do the ultimate deed.“ The petition she started will be forwarded to FBI after a few more people sign it. “Public opinion does not charge or prosecute someone, the law does. But by indicating our frustration, we encourage the federal authorities to leave no stone unturned and communicate our feelings about double standards in delivering justice,“ she said.

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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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