Dear Friends:
Namaste. Almost three and a half years back, Dr. Divyendu Sinha, a brilliant computer scientist was beaten to death close to his home in Old Bridge, NJ while out on an evening stroll on June 25, 2010. Four teenagers attacked him while one teenager waited with a get-away car.
All five were charge as adult. However, Sinha family had nothing but set backs. One defendant, Steven Contreras, acquitted of most serious charge of murder, pleaded guilty in a plea bargain and would be sentenced to no more than four years. Other two, Julian Daley and Christopher Conway also took a plea deal without ever going to trial and would receive up to 8 and 15 years respectively.
The tragedy was compounded when on September 30th, a jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty on nine of 10 counts, including charge of murder for remaining two defendants, Christian Tinli and Cash Johnson. This in face of overwhelming evidence and eyewitness testimony is nothing short of gross injustice to the Sinha family and a slap on the law abiding citizens of this country. Imagine instead of spending rest of their lives in a prison as the punishment, together these five criminals will spend no more than 23 years, that is less than five years on average.
We have created a petition asking the Judge Bradley Ferencz to ignore the plea deal and sentence the convicts to the maximum prison time allowed by the law. We have hardly eight days to collect thousands of signatures as we need to submit the signatures to the judge on October 16. Sentencing date is October 18.
Please sign the petition at the following link and post it on your social media (Facebook, Google+, twitter, blog, Reddit, etc.) and broadcast it to your email groups as soon as possible.
<http://tinyurl.com/sinhapetition> If there is any problem with it, then paste the following link in your address bar.
You can hear a radio interview that I had immediately after the verdict at <petition>.
We thank you on behalf of Mrs. Alka Sinha and her sons, Ashish and Ravi.
Brotherly yours,
Gaurang G. Vaishnav
VHP of America
Edison, NJ, USA

Stop the injustice done to Dr Divyendu Siha’s family. Culprits should not go unpunished.
We request for justice.
Santosh Khachroo