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INDIAN MAN HAD BLACK DAUGHTER-IN-LAW KILLED: Prosecution asks for death penalty for Chiman Rai.

(July 3, 2008)

A native of India who became a prominent businessman in the United States was found guilty of murder last week for hiring hit-men to kill his daughter-in-law because she was Black.

A jury in Fulton County, Georgia was convinced by prosecution arguments that 69-year-old Chiman Rai was so angered by his son marrying an African American woman that he hired hit-men to kill her.

Twenty-two year-old Sparkle Michelle Rai was found strangled and stabbed more than a dozen times eight years ago. The senior Rai immigrated to the United States in 1970 and for a while taught math at Mississippi’s predominantly Black Alcorn State University.

The prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty in the case and the jury rendered a death sentence the day after finding Rai guilty.

The case was broken when a young woman was arrested on another charge and tried to improve her situation by helping police solve a crime she said she witnessed several years before. The crime was the stabbing of Sparkle Michelle Rai. (source: Taylor Media Services)

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