NRIs involved in US Slavery Case : Gets 11 years in Prison & $25,000 fine

Even though Knowliz is a technology oriented blog, but I couldn't resist blogging about this news because it involves Indians.

Recently a case has been highlighted where a New York based millionaire "Varsha Sabhnani" has been sentenced 11 years in prison for torturing and treating two Indonesian women as slaves. The two women were treated less than human, forced to eat red hot chili powder, take ice-chilled showers and climb stairs as punishment.

Varsha Sabhnani and her husband "Mahender Sabhnani" were convicted of confsicating the two women's passport.

"Indian-born Varsha Sabhnani and her husband, Mahender Sabhnani, were convicted of forced labor, peonage, harboring aliens, document servitude and conspiracy called as a case of modern-day slavery."
- (Source : Reuters)

I feel very ashamed seeing Indians getting involved in these kinds of activities. To read more about this news item, read below articles:

• Woman gets 11 years in prison in US Slavery Case - (Reuters)
• Long Island millionaire gets prison for enslaving workers - (silive.com)

On the other side of the coin, number of millionaires in India grew by 23% from the last year. Indians are among the world's top millionaires. (By the way, there are 10 million millionaires in the world as per MSN Money.) And Indians are making progress in every field, every business and every technology and are most valuable team members in any industry.
(Follow links to read about these stories in detail.)