Death row continues in Biden Raaj ! Indian-origin student Akul Dhawan froze to death in US

Akul Dhawan tried to re-enter the club multiple times but was refused entry each time. Venue staff called two rideshare vehicles to pick him up, but Dhawan declined both rides. Several friends tried calling Dhawan but his phone went unanswered.

NewsBharati    23-Feb-2024 12:16:51 PM
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An Indian-American student froze to death near the US nightclub that denied him entry last month, officials have said. Akul Dhawan was a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was found dead on January 20 - his body was discovered on the back porch of a building near campus. Akul Dhawan was 18.
 
Akul Dhawan
 
The Champaign County Coroner's Office in Illinois said in a press release on February 20 that Dhawan died of hypothermia. “Acute alcohol intoxication and prolonged exposure to extremely cold temperatures, significantly contributed to his death,” the coroner’s office said following an autopsy. Dhawan’s death was ruled accidental with no suspicion of foul play.
 
What happened on January 19?
 
On January 19, Akul Dhawan left his university residence hall along with some friends. They had been consuming alcohol in the residence hall.
 
The group reached Canopy Club around 10 pm, where they stayed for around 45 minutes before leaving for Green Street. “Security video obtained later showed him consuming more alcohol before the group returned to Canopy Club,” the campus police said in a press release.
 
“Dhawan’s friends re-entered Canopy Club between 11:25 p.m. and 11:29 p.m. while Mr. Dhawan remained outside. He was denied entry by venue staff when he attempted to enter at 11:31 pm,” the release said.
 
 
 
Dhawan tried to re-enter the club multiple times but was refused entry each time. Venue staff called two rideshare vehicles to pick him up, but Dhawan declined both rides. Several friends tried calling Dhawan but his phone went unanswered.
 
At 1.23 am, a friend of Dhawan’s called the police, expressing concern about his whereabouts.Dhawan’s body was discovered at 11.08 am on January 20 by a university employee. The 18-year-old was found lying on the steps of a university building. He had died of hypothermia.
 
Jaahnavi Kandula
 
Yesterday, Seattle police officer who struck and killed Jaahnavi Kandula, an Indian student from Hyderabad, has been set free from all criminal charges due to a "lack of sufficient evidence." " The King County Prosecutor's Office decided on Wednesday not to move forward with the case against the officer Kevin Dave.
 
The 23-year-old Indian student, Kandula, died after she was struck by a police vehicle driven by officer Dave when she was crossing a street in Seattle on January 23, 2024. The officer was driving more than 119 kmph speed as he was responding to a drug overdose call. Kandula was thrown 100 feet when she was struck by the speeding police patrol vehicle.
 
Seven deaths in a month
 
The racism and attacks on Indian students have become a usual thing in the US now.The tragedy of Dhawan's death adds to a concerning trend, with seven young men of Indian and Indian-American descent meeting untimely ends in various circumstances across the United States this year.
 
Last week, an Indian-origin family from Kerala was found dead at their home in California with the police investigating the case as a murder-suicide. Anand Henry, a 37-year-old former Meta software engineer, is suspected of killing his wife Alice Benziger, 36, and their four-year-old twin sons before turning a gun on himself.
 
Student Sameer Kamath from Purdue University was found dead in Warren County on 5 February. Neel Acharya who had been missing in the US was confirmed dead by the same university authorities last month.
 
The most horrific death was that of Vivek Saini . A resident of Haryana, he died after he was hammered 50 times in Georgia’s Lithonia on 16 January.
 
 
The murder of Vivek Saini was caught on camera installed in the store. White House official John Kirby denounced attacks on Indian students last week and said that there is “no excuse for violence based on race, gender, or any other factor.”
 
“The president and this administration have been working very, very hard to make sure we’re doing everything we can to work with state and local authorities to try to thwart and disrupt those kinds of attacks and make it clear to anybody who might consider them that they’ll be held properly accountable,” Kirby said amid a slew of attacks on Indian and Indian American students in various parts of the US.
 
It is suprising how the US preaches human rights to others while their own system is discriminatory and rotting.