Fugitive from US hiding in city?

Taking into record a letter from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a court in New Delhi has issued an arrest warrant against Ganesh Upendra Shenoy, a youth from Mumbai. He is reportedly wanted in a two-year-old hit-and-run case in New York.

“Warrant of arrest is issued against fugitive Ganesh Upendra Shenoy for July 12,”  Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau said in a recent order acting on a communication from the External Affairs Ministry.

The ministry had moved the court on April 30, requesting it to initiate extradition proceedings against Mumbai-based Shenoy, who has been charged with manslaughter in the second degree according to US laws.

Shenoy allegedly fled the US two years ago after killing one Phillip Mastropolo while driving on the streets of New York on April 11, 2005. A court there indicted him for the manslaughter charge, comparable to causing death by negligence under Indian Laws. An arrest warrant was issued in the US against Shenoy on August 10, 2005.

Shenoy allegedly jumped a traffic signal in the early hours of April 11, 2005 while driving beyond the permitted speed limit and collided with a car being driven by the victim at an intersection.

Mastropolo died following which a criminal indictment report was filed against Shenoy in the Supreme Court of the county of Nassau in New York in August 2005.