Posted on 10/24/2025 7:14:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Purana Shala villagers in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district Friday rallied outside a gurdwara in support of California truck accident accused and local boy Jashanpreet Singh.
Jashanpreet Singh, 21, has been charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) by the US authorities.
Refuting allegations of drug use, Jashanpreet Singh’s father, Ravinder Singh, said at the rally, “He is an Amritdhari Gursikh, someone who has lived by the principles of Sikhism his entire life. He has never consumed drugs – he hasn’t even been near them. These accusations are completely unfounded.”
“We mourn the lives lost in this tragic incident, but our son is not to be blamed for doing drugs. This was simply a terrible accident, and the drug use allegation is not only wrong but damaging,” he added.
“We want justice. We hope the Indian government will work with US authorities to ensure this case is handled with honesty and fairness,” said a local resident.
The crash claimed the lives of three people and left four others injured. The accident also drew attention to issues of safety and regulation surrounding the qualifications for commercial driver’s licences in the US.
Jashanpreet Singh is an alleged illegal immigrant in the US. He was arrested Tuesday (local US time) on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for smashing his vehicle into slow-moving traffic on a San Bernardino County freeway. Jashanpreet Singh reportedly crossed the southern US border in 2022.
Earlier in August, an Indian immigrant named Harjinder Singh was accused of causing a crash in Fort Pierce, Florida, that killed three people. Harjinder Singh reportedly crossed the southern US border illegally in 2018 and obtained a commercial driver’s licence in California.
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No way. If my sons drove a truck directly into cars at high speed without even touching the brakes, I'd take them into the police myself.
So he was just incompetent and driving an 80,000 pound vehicle? Well, that's a relief.
That is Harjinder Singh, who attempted the U-TURN ON A HIGHWAY in Florida which also killed 3 people.
Both drivers killed 3 people each.. weird.
Do tell ... for what does the FBI director need to “answer” in this case?
He never even hit the brakes!
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Apparently didn’t do nothing isn’t just the ghetto.
India thinks murder is. Ok when they do it.
Third world cesspool
And now he needs lawyers, guns and money.
The boys in the area must be born with full beards.
Throw this illegal-alien, murderer “boy” in prison for several decades...at hard labor. Arrest whoever hired him and arrest whoever gave him his CDL.
I am sure that they want their punjab boy to be judged by Indian law, there he would be facing tops five years, and that’s under a new harsher law. I guess human life just doesn’t hold much value in India.
Check for mescaline type drugs....Sikhs and other Asian often consume Betel Nuts(suck on the who nuts or chews the nut and shell) and betel nut quid(ground betel nuts laced with lime9calcium carbonate0 which brings out more of the hypnotic drug and enhances the effect) which can be hypnotic and mildly hallucinatory in their effects...can be impairing in its effects.
He’ll soon find out all about Bad Karma.
And he was shifting gears ( Papa loved mama, mama loved men)
Well if he crashed unimpaired, then they have to question if he crashed on purpose. Either way he’s facing jail time due to the deaths of the drivers.
Why does he "need" to answer?
Is the FBI involved in this case?
They may have little idea of what their son got up to in the US. They’re very far away, don’t know our system or exactly what happened, etc. I think it’s just natural that they request he be dealt with fairly.
The second Sikh to kill motorists from behind the wheel.
As Sherlock Holmes told Dr. Watson:
Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
A third time is enemy action.
Zackly.
Aha! If he wasn’t on drugs, he must have done it on purpose. Book him, Dan-o, Murder One.
Thanks to the villagers for pointing this out, he can get a much tougher sentence now.
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