India, Oct. 23 -- Jashanpreet Singh, the 21-year-old trucker from India who has been arrested for causing a road crash that killed three people in California, had entered the United States illegally three years ago.

He now faces charges of gross vehicular manslaughter and other offences for the deadly crash on the the San Bernardino County freeway in Southern California.

After he crossed the southern US border from Mexico in 2022, he was first intercepted by the US Border Patrol agents in California's El Centro Sector in March of that year.

Since the then President Joe Biden's administration had an "alternatives to detention" policy, the Sikh immigrant of Punjabi origin was among certain undocumented migrants who were permitted to rema...