India, Oct. 26 -- The family of 21-year-old trucker Jashanpreet Singh from Punjab, an illegal immigrant who caused a road crash claiming three lives in the US, have challenged the allegation that he was high on drugs at the time.

"Please, do not drag down our son; stop the false conspiracies being made to punish him," his mother, Jasveer Kaur, said at their village in Gurdaspur district of Indian Punjab. "My son took Amrit, my son is a Khalsa (baptised Sikh). He does not consume any intoxicants," she added, speaking in Punjabi.

She made a request to the Donald Trump administration: "Nothing should happen to my child. Send him home, please, but do not give him any punishment."

The US authorities have said Jashanpreet is an illegal immig...