Man out of jail after 43 yrs, but ICE puts him in again

Subramanyam Vedam was jailed for a crime he did not commit

- BY STEPHEN N.R.

After spending 43 years in a Pennsylvania prison for a murder he did not commit, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam finally walked free earlier this month. But his long-awaited freedom was short-lived.

According to a BBC report, the 64-year-old Indian-origin man — exonerated of the 1980 murder of his college roommate — was immediately taken into custody by US Immigra. tion and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which now seeks to deport him to India.

Vedam has not lived in India since he was nine months old.

“He’s unfamiliar with modern technology, he wouldn’t know how to find housing or a job,” his niece told the Times of India, adding that he “has more of a Philadelphia accent than anything else” and “doesn’t speak Hindi.”

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