*1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *Community/Crime/Vigil** * Contact: Satya Dosapati, Sreedhar Reddy Kona Email: [email protected] Web: http://JusticeForDivyenduFamily.wordpress.com<http://justicefordivyendufamily.wordpress.com/>
Ph: 847-462-4692 [image: candleLightsAtVigil.jpg]<http://picasaweb.google.com/115060176293864938676/VigilForDrSinhaJuly18OldBridgeNJ#> *About 800 attended a candlelight Vigil on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at Old Bridge High School to honor the memory of Dr.Divyendu Sinha* *New Jersey**, July 18, 2010: * Over 800 people attended a Vigil and Memorial service held in honor of Dr. Divyendu Sinha who was fatally attacked near his home on June 25, 2010 in front of his wife and two sons at Old Bridge, New Jersey. Old Bridge Township officials, Old Bridge Board of Education members, State Legislators, Old Bridge community as well as members of the Indian-American Community at large, including leaders of other organizations such as Anti Defamation League (ADL) and Japanese American Citizens League participated in the vigil. The community expressed grief for the loss of Dr. Sinha’s life. Dr. Sinha was a brilliant technologist who had made many contributions to the field of science. More importantly Dr. Sinha was a law abiding American living in what he thought was a safe community of Old Bridge. Representatives of the Sinha family and close friends expressed their gratitude to the community for their support. Lawrence Cooper of ADL said Jewish people will stand together with Indian American community, shoulder to shoulder and denounce the crime. Indian American elected leaders Sudhanshu Prasad and representative on behalf of Upendra Chivukula called for firm action. While the Township’s administration and the Board of Education expressed their sorrow over the tragedy, many speakers wanted to know as to why the Township Administration and the School Board had been ignoring the telltale signs of the tragedy. It was pointed that the tragedy did not suddenly occur on the day of the attack, but its signs were very obvious much earlier. A website that has been set up to petition the Middlesex county prosecutor and other authorities to bring justice to Dr. Sinha’s family for this heinous crime, has received over 30,000 hits (with nearly 10,000 signing the petition) to date. Some comments stated that their children were aware who the perpetrators of the crime who were bullies at school but school chose to ignore because they are valuable as good athletes to school team. A reporter, who covered the story and happens to live in the same development as Dr. Sinha, mentioned that her Chinese American neighbor is terrified about the bullying practices by certain elements of the school. The community wanted to know how and why the school administration had overlooked such incidents. The superintendent responded by saying that the school would not condone bullying regardless of an individual’s athletic skills. The town’s administration was queried about several incidents of harassment and bullying reported by citizens of township during the town hall meeting on June 29th arranged after the attack. One community leader who had interviewed the residents of the area highlighted examples of rowdy behavior by certain elements in the neighborhood and subsequent inaction by the police when such incidents were reported. The message conveyed by several speakers was that the Township and School Board would have to take responsibility for the tragedy and take every step in their power to ensure that this incident was not repeated. The vigil ended on a positive note where the community leaders and the community at large who had assembled, expressed appreciation that following the incident the administration as well as the school board have been very cooperative and forthcoming in extending help to the family and the community. The elected officials offered to work diligently to serve justice. The community promised to keep up the vigil until justice is served, and the community agreed to foster harmony among citizens of all races and religions. Indian American community, comprising of several Organizations in tri-state arranged the program under the leadership of Pradip (Peter) Kothari. For additional information, contact Satya or Sreedhar at 847-462-4692. *2. An appeal to the community* * Please follow all these steps below to extend your support, as a part of the community. 1. Please see how and what happened on home page at http:// justicefordivyendufamily. wordpress.com/<http://justicefordivyendufamily.wordpress.com/> and check all other pages here for the latest updates. 2. Please sign yourself with your comments on this online web petition at http://www.petitiononline. com/divyendu/petition.html<http://www.petitiononline.com/divyendu/petition.html> ( Click on "Available to Petition Author") 3. Send your email to your senators, the congressmen and the Governor. To do this, please click on http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ selectmun.asp<http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/selectmun.asp> and the Governor's contact link at http://www.state.nj.us/ governor/contact/ <http://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact/> select subject category as "Crime Victims", fill in the form, type "Dr.Divyendu Sinha's murder" in the subject line, copy the text message from the web page http://www. petitiononline.com/divyendu/ petition.html<http://www.petitiononline.com/divyendu/petition.html> into your email message and click on "submit". 4. Please consider making generous contributions to scholarship funds for the children of Dr. Sinha. Checks can be made out to the “Aashish Sinha Trust Fund“ and/or “Ravi Sinha Trust Fund“ and mail your checks to the address: Koam Tac, 116 Village Blvd, Suite 200, Princeton, NJ 08540 5. Please let us know if you will be able to help by sending an email to justicefordivyendufamily@ gmail.com <[email protected]> and forward this to your friends and families. 6. Join on the Facebook account "JusticeFor DivyenduFamily" and Twitter account "divyenducase", so that people can easily communicate with you online. 7. You may share your condolences with the family at: Alka Sinha, 25 Fella Dr., Old Bridge, NJ 08857, Phone (732) 679-7487, drdsi...@optonline. net<[email protected]> 3. Some public links about the criminals (a) Christian Tinli (b) Cash Johnson (c) Julian Daley (1) http://www.topix.com/forum/county/middlesex-nj/T22PCB9AI29E02MM1/p2 (1a) http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/search?ordering=&searchphrase=all&searchword=Sinha And of particular interest is this anonymous posting on this above link (1) as follows: "I found this on very informative blog site at (2) newjerseynewsroom.com<http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/> This is supposedly the myspace page of Christian Tinli, showing the photo of the alleged (by readers on the web, that is) three assailants, Christian Tinli, Cash Johnson and Julian Daley, in that order from left to right (plus some girl in the middle): (3) http://www.myspace.com/og3og Supposedly the myspace page of Cash Johnson: (4) http://www.myspace.com/2good4darich ..." <http://www.myspace.com/cash_money287:%3Ehttp://www.myspace.com/cash_money287%3C/a%3E%20%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3ESupposedly%20the%20myspace%20page%20of%20Julian%20Daley:%20%3Cbr%3E%285%29%20%3Ca%20href=> (7) Http://Www.Myspace.Com/Og3og#Ixzz0tNaZDMHK#Ixzz0tRpzhzwi<http://www.myspace.com/Og3og#Ixzz0tNaZDMHK%23Ixzz0tRpzhzwi> And this also has a video clip as (8) as follows: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1643273 (9) http://www.facebook.com/people/Christian-Tinli/100000204140113 And the link http://www.myspace.com/cash_money287 has some comments by Mr Cash as follows: "Male 19 years old, i stole ur sneakers and your, New Jersey, United States" (11) http://www.myspace.com/cash_money287#ixzz0tRuMefmX (12) pics: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=33870005 (13) videos: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ContributorID=35412410 which leads to a few more new video links including a "deadly fight in a school bus" as (13a) http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31691877 (14) http://www.myspace.com/cash_money287#ixzz0tRw5eiQh And following are some of his blogs: (15) http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=33870005&blogId=92132720 And a little research on Julian Daily has brought some foot ball video clips as follows (15a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpeNLNwCfnM End of report *
