Wife Killer From Gujarat Is Now On FBI’s Most Wanted List

A Gujarati-born 33 year old Badresh Patel is non on the tenth-most wanted list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States.

This is the same list in which Osama Bin Laden had once featured right on the top-most wanted persons.

The FBI officials have been pursuing Patel since he went underground in 2015 after brutally murdering his wife Palak, who was then 21-years old. The FBI put him on the list after getting information that he had received assistance from a human smuggler of Punjabi origin residing in the US, to flee America. The same facilitator had helped alleged human smuggler Bharat Patel, in illegally trafficking Gujaratis to the US.

Sources tell OneIndia that Patel had first sought refuge in Ecuador before he illegally entered into Canada, where his relatives and friends reside. His whereabouts are a subject of debate, as he has cut-off all ties with his parents living in Ahmedabad.

Insiders said that Patel and his wife had moved to the US in 2014, where they had found employment in a doughnut shop in Maryland. Both are said to have lived in a hide-out and worked there. Their visa had expired in March 2015, but they stayed on in the US illegally. According to sources Palak had indicated her desire to return to India as troubled brewed in their relationship. There were frequent arguments between the couple, the probe also learnt.