India, May 29 -- A 29-year-old Indian man was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison by a US District Court in Minnesota on Thursday, following a jury trial, for his alleged role as a co-conspirator in an international human smuggling case in 2022.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, known as 'Dirty Harry', was convicted in the case involving the death of the four members of the Patel family in 2022. The family --- Jagdish Patel (39), Vaishaliben (37) and their children aged 11 and 3 --- froze to death while crossing the Canadian border. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police found their bodies just north of the Manitoba-Minnesota border on January 19, 2022.

Patel, convicted by a US court in November 2024, and another accused, Steve Anthony Sh...