dingucha

It was in 2020 - two years before the news of four members of Patel family freezing to death on the US border shook people to the core - that dingucha blipped on the radar of investigating sleuths as the hotbed of human smuggling.

We have exchanged information about the human smugglers involved in the tragic deaths of the four dingucha residents, said officer close to the probe.

Rajinder Pal Singh, an accused in human trafficking and money laundering cases, has pled guilty in Washington state in the US. The Canadian authorities and those involved in the case of 'dingucha deaths' - where four family members, including two children, froze to death near the Canadian border while crossing into the US illegally - last January are keenly watching the development.

City crime branch is investigating a computer that may have crucial clues in relation to the dingucha case. The computer belonged to one of the accused in the case, Yogesh Patel. Patel's aide threw the machine into the canal in March 2022. Sources in the city crime branch said Patel told his aide to get rid of the computer to destroy the evidence it contained. On January 19, 2022, a family of four from dingucha village in Gandhinagar district - Jagdish Patel, his wife Vaishali, and their two children Vihangi and Dharmik - froze to death while crossing into the United States from Canada. After the four died, Gujarat police began an inquiry in the case and city crime branch recently arrested two persons, Yogesh and his aide Bhavesh Patel, a resident of Kalol in Gandhinagar. They were charged with culpable homicide. During his interrogation, Patel told city crime branch investigators about the disposal of the computer from his office in Vastrapur. "We have been trying to find the computer in the Narmada canal in Gandhinagar. We will get divers to find it. We have also contacted forensics experts who will be able to retrieve the files on the computer," a crime branch investigator

City crime branch on Tuesday arrested a man from Kalol in Gandhinagar district for his alleged involvement in the dingucha case. Sources in the city crime branch said the accused, identified as Dashrath Chaudhary, who is from Mansa, was working for a human smuggler named Yogesh Patel, who is from Vastrapur in Ahmedabad city.

The last known footage of the dingucha family that froze to death during their treacherous journey to the US by foot was aired in Canada on Thursday as part of a documentary by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The footage shows the family arriving at Toronto airport on January 12.

CID (crime) officers have summoned two agents, who were allegedly involved in illegal immigration, to inquire into the case of the Patel family from dingucha village in Gandhinagar district, who froze to death on the Canadian side of the border while attempting to cross into the

New details have emerged regarding the tragic incident that claimed the lives of four of a family from dingucha village in Gandhinagar, who were found dead barely 12m from the US-Canada border while attempting an illegal crossing on January 19 last year.

Lonely and scared, four of a family from dingucha in Gandhinagar, who wanted to enter the US illegally, froze to death merely 10m away from the Canada-US border in January. If you assumed that the tragedy deterred people from approaching human smugglers, think again.

dingucha – a village a few kilometres from Kalol district in Gandhinagar – hit headlines in January after a family of four froze to death while trying to illegally enter the US through the Canadian border.

The man running the massive migrant smuggling ring responsible for the dingucha tragedy in January is believed to have snuck back into India, assuming the identity of none other than a resident of dingucha in Gandhinagar.

Bharat alias Bobby Patel - the 47-year-old 'dingucha kingpin' suspected of having sent four of a family from Gandhinagar on an illegal journey to the US that ended in their deaths early in January - has finally been caught. The Gujarat police arrested him late Monday from the Bhadaj area of Ahmedabad when he allegedly arrived to meet his ailing partner.

In January, a family of four from dingucha, including two children, had frozen to death while crossing the Canada-US border between the Pembina, North Dakota and Emerson, Manitoba. These deaths on border turned the spotlight to a small village in Gandhinagar district, but this was the not the first such case. Despite the tragedy, illegal immigration to America continued and reports of accidents and even another death kept coming in from US borders.

Close to a year after Jagdish Patel and his family from dingucha were found frozen to death near the Canadian border while being smuggled into the US, it is suspected that his elder brother is connected to the human trafficking ring that facilitated the illegal journey. Investigators have put Mahendra Patel under scanner who is alleged to have sent not just Jagdish's family but also other people to the US illegally.

The discovery of frozen bodies of four of a family from dingucha in Gandhinagar near the Canadian border in January put under scanner the nationwide network of agents running illegal immigration rackets and twisted methods they employ to help migrants cross into the US illegally

Utter the word dingucha and almost everyone in Gujarat will recognize it as the village from where four of a Patel family, including two children, were found frozen to death near the Canadian border while illegally crossing into the US. To add to its infamy, investigators - who are weeding out illegal immigration rackets being run in the state following this tragedy - have uncovered that 18 out of 20 agents, who have been sending people to the US illegally, hail from this village.

Sparked by the dingucha tragedy, Gujarat's battle against human smuggling rackets has gained strength even as immigration issues gain traction in the US. The state police and central agencies have identified at least 11 spots in north Gujarat that are epicentres of illegal immigration.

Opposition Congress attacked the ruling BJP in the assembly, accusing them of failing to provide employment opportunities, thus forcing people to illegally migrate to foreign countries and paving way for dingucha-like tragedies.

An NRI status is the mark of success in dingucha – the last village in Gandhinagar district on the way to Mehsana.

Despite the tragic 2022 death of a family of four, illegal migration from dingucha, Gujarat, to the US persists. Over 800 villagers have undertaken the perilous journey in the last three years, leaving the village sparsely populated. Driven by the dream of settling in America, residents risk their lives, undeterred by the dangers highlighted by the Patel family's fate.

A year after Jagdish Patel and his family from dingucha were found frozen to death near the Canadian border while being smuggled into the US, it is suspected that another close family member was aware of their journey and hid details from security agencies.

Nearly two months after four people from dingucha froze to death near the Canadian border in a treacherous journey to enter America illegally, officials from the security agencies as well as the consulate general of the US and Canada arrived in Gandhinagar on Monday.

After a family of four from dingucha village and one person from Kalol — both in Gandhinagar district — died while trying to unlawfully cross the US border in January and December last year, illegal immigration into the US remains unabated.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, an Indian national, received a 10-year prison sentence from a US court for his involvement in a human smuggling operation. His actions led to the tragic deaths of a family of four from dingucha, Gujarat, who froze to death attempting to cross the US-Canada border in 2022.

In what comes as a grim reminder of last year's dingucha tragedy, it has been confirmed that the three Indians who were among the eight who drowned in the St Lawrence river at the Quebec-New York border belong to a Gujarati family from Manekpura village of Mehsana.

Nearly ten months after four people from dingucha village of Gandhinagar died while crossing the desolate Canada-US border, Gujarat Police nabbed the main accused in the people smuggling case, Bharat Patel alias Bobby, from his girlfriend's home in Bhadaj.