As a family of four struggled through a brutal snowstorm, they called smuggler Fenil Patel for help. Help never came. Testimony came from Rajinder Pal Singh during the trial of Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand. They smuggled a family of four through Canada before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the U.S. A Minnesota jury found Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel guilty on all charges.
Steve Shand leaves court in Fergus Falls, Minn. | Fenil Patel was found living comfortably in a suburb outside Toronto by the CBC's The Fifth Estate. Fenil Patel is said to have driven dozens of illegal Indian migrants from Toronto to B.C and then Manitoba as a human smuggler. Harshkumar Patel, Steve Shand. | 
Fenil Patel |
| The Patel family (no relation) died of exposure on Jan. 19, 2022, while attempting to cross illegally into Minnesota. The frozen bodies of Jagdish Patel, 39, his wife, Vaishali, 37, their daughter, Vihangi, 11, and son, Dharmik, 3, were found 12 metres from the U.S. border. They died in -35 temperatures and a blinding snowstorm.
Fenil Patel is facing charges in Gujarat of culpable homicide and human smuggling for his role in the death of the Patel family. |  |
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