Jaahnavi Kandula was a grasp’s scholar at Northeastern College’s Seattle campus.
New Delhi:
India has urged the US to conduct an intensive investigation into bodycam footage of a Seattle cop joking concerning the dying of an Indian scholar after she was hit by a dashing police automobile.
Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was killed in January after being hit by a police automobile pushed by Officer Kevin Dave. He was driving at practically 120 kmph on the best way to a report of an overdose, the Seattle Instances newspaper reported.
Kandula was a grasp’s scholar at Northeastern College’s Seattle campus.
In a video launched by the Seattle Police Division on Monday, one other cop might be heard joking and laughing whereas discussing the accident.
Within the clip, Seattle Police Officers’ Guild Vice President Daniel Auderer, in a name with the guild’s president, might be heard saying, “She is useless” earlier than bursting out into laughter and calling Ms. Kandula “a daily individual”. He additional mentioned, by way of bursts of laughter, “Yeah, simply write a verify. Eleven thousand {dollars}.”
The clip ends with him saying: “She was 26 anyway, she had restricted worth”, getting her age improper.
Indian Consulate in San Francisco termed the dealing with of Kandula’s dying in a highway accident as “deeply troubling” and sought motion towards these concerned within the case.
“We have now taken up the matter strongly with native authorities in Seattle & Washington State in addition to senior officers in Washington DC for an intensive investigation & motion towards these concerned on this tragic case,” the mission mentioned in a put up on X (previously referred to as Twitter).
“The Consulate & Embassy will proceed to carefully comply with up on this matter with all involved authorities,” it added.
Latest stories together with in media of the dealing with of Ms Jaahnavi Kandula’s dying in a highway accident in Seattle in January are deeply troubling. We have now taken up the matter strongly with native authorities in Seattle & Washington State in addition to senior officers in Washington DC
— India in SF (@CGISFO) September 13, 2023
.. for an intensive investigation & motion towards these concerned on this tragic case.
The Consulate & Embassy will proceed to carefully comply with up on this matter with all involved authorities.@IndianEmbassyUS@MEAIndia— India in SF (@CGISFO) September 13, 2023
Kandula hailed from Andhra Pradesh and had been pursuing her grasp’s diploma at Northeastern College in Seattle, in accordance with a GoFundMe fundraiser launched to assist her household.
“The household has nothing to say. Besides I’m wondering if these males’s daughters or granddaughters have worth. A life is a life,” her uncle, Ashok Kandula, was quoted as saying on the web page.
