More than a year after police in India named Fenil Patel as a suspect in the human smuggling case of a family that froze to death at the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found him living freely in a suburb just outside Toronto.
The Gujarat Crime Investigation Department (CID) had been tracking intelligence inputs ever since bodies were found of four of a family from Dingucha village of Gandhinagar on January 16, 2022. They were reported to have died while crossing over to the US from the Canadian border.