An India-born cab driver sentenced to 20 years behind bars for kidnapping and raping a woman at knifepoint in 2011 has had his citizenship revoked, the Justice Department confirmed Monday.
Gurmeet Singh, now 55, was convicted in 2014 of the violent sexual assault of his young female passenger, who fell asleep as he drove her to her East Village apartment after picking her up from Williamsburg in May 2011, weeks before he filed his naturalization application.
According to a victim impact statement read by prosecutors at Singh’s sentencing, the woman woke up to find the cabbie on top of her and holding a knife against her throat, asking her if she wanted to live.
Singh threatened the victim, bound and gagged her, blindfolded her, removed her clothes and raped her, after which she fled his taxi on foot and flagged down passerby for help.
The Justice Department said Singh “concealed these acts” throughout his naturalization proceedings, becoming a US citizen on Oct. 19, 2011.
“Singh unlawfully obtained the privileges of U.S. citizenship by concealing horrible criminal acts,” said Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.
“The Department will continue to protect the integrity of the citizenship process and hold accountable those who defraud our immigration system.”
Singh initially entered the US in February 1992 as a temporary visitor on a six-month visa. He stayed in the country without authorization for years until a visa petition by his family allowed him to become a permanent resident in June 2000. --->READ MORE HERE
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| Attorney General Todd Blanche |
New York, The US has revoked the citizenship of an Indian-origin man, who was convicted of rape. The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered judgment revoking the naturalisation of convicted rapist Gurmeet Singh.
A native of India, Singh entered the United States in February 1992 as a visitor for a temporary period not to exceed six months.
He then remained in the US without authorisation for years until a family-based immigrant visa petition allowed him to become a permanent resident in June 2000.
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Singh, a convicted rapist from India, is no longer a US citizen.
He "concealed a rape and kidnapping during the naturalization process, and a federal court has now revoked his citizenship".
Blanche added that American citizenship is not a shield for criminals. "Fraudulently obtained citizenship will not protect criminals from justice," he said.
Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate of the Justice Department's Civil Division said Singh unlawfully obtained the privileges of US citizenship by concealing horrible criminal acts. --->READ MORE HERE
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