This story is from January 31, 2020

US fake varsity: NRI techie gets six-month jail

US fake varsity: NRI techie gets six-month jail
NEW DELHI: US-based NRI software professional Phanideep Karnati was convicted on Wednesday by a US court in Detroit and given six-month jail term for recruiting students to the fake Farmington University, which was set up by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to crackdown on immigration fraud. He was taken in custody soon after the verdict.
Phanideep, who had studied engineering in Hyderabad before moving to the US 11 years ago for a job, maintained that he was not aware that it was a fake university and went by the university’s website that it was genuine.
Phanideep will be deported to India after serving his jail term.
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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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