{"id":29963,"date":"2025-11-05T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29963"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:31:37","slug":"us-courts-stay-deportation-of-indian-origin-man-wrongly-jailed-for-43-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/05\/us-courts-stay-deportation-of-indian-origin-man-wrongly-jailed-for-43-years\/","title":{"rendered":"US courts stay deportation of Indian-origin man wrongly jailed for 43 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two different US courts have stayed the deportation of an Indian-origin man who spent more than 40 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.<\/b><\/p>\n

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam, 64, who was convicted of murdering his former roommate in 1983,\u00a0was exonerated in October<\/a>\u00a0after new evidence surfaced in the case.<\/p>\n

But immediately after his release from prison, he was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who want to deport him to India.<\/p>\n

Mr Vedam’s family says that even though he was born in India, he moved to the US when he was nine months old. He is a legal permanent resident of the US and had his citizenship application accepted before he was arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He is currently being held at a short-term holding centre in Alexandria, Louisiana, that is equipped with an airstrip for deportations.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, an immigration judge stayed his deportation until the Board of Immigration Appeals decides whether to review his conviction in a separate drug case. The same day, his lawyers got a stay on his deportation from a US District Court in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press, Mr Vedam was detained on drug charges while police investigated the death of his former roommate. He was ultimately charged with murder and later convicted of the crime.<\/p>\n

To resolve the drug case, Mr Vedam pleaded no contest to four counts of selling LSD and a theft charge. In 1984, he was sentenced to a separate two-and-a-half to five-year sentence in the drug case, as part of a plea agreement. That sentence was to be served simultaneously with his life sentence.<\/p>\n

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