Gurmeet Singh, an India-born taxi driver convicted in the United States for kidnapping and raping a passenger in 2011, has had his US citizenship revoked. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison after the assault, which involved taking the victim at knifepoint and committing the sexual violence.
The decision occurs about 15 years after the conviction and follows the criminal case in which prosecutors secured a prison term. The outlets report the citizenship revocation as a separate legal outcome that follows his conviction and imprisonment, rather than changing the underlying facts of the 2011 assault as determined in court. Coverage focuses on the timeline from the 2011 incident and subsequent sentencing to the citizenship-stripping action years later.
