Indian-origin man charged in U.S. for cyberstalking
The Hindu
A 31-year-old Indian-origin computer security consultant has been charged in the U.S. for allegedly engaging in cyberstalking campaign against a woman and threatening multiple people, including a deputy prosecutor and a police officer investigating him.
Sumit Garg from Seattle was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to engage in cyberstalking, three counts of cyberstalking in violation of criminal order, and two counts of cyberstalking, Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman announced. Garg was transferred to federal custody last week and was ordered detained at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac on March 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. He will be arraigned on the indictment on March 25.Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).