CityNews Exclusive:

Brampton Religious Leader Targeted In Possible Hate Crime

Saturday March 21, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff

Mahendra Gupta is still in shock about an incident that happened while his family was sleeping.

The Brampton religious leader's home surveillance video caught two hooded men using an accelerant and setting fire to vehicles in his driveway around 2:30am Tuesday. The heat was so intense his car tires and an engine exploded.

Luckily, his 15-year-old son heard the car alarms go off and immediately ran to his parents' room and told them to call 911.

"He is my hero," Gupta stated. "He certainly saved our life. [Teenagers] usually don't wake up. But he did...and he did the right thing."

Gupta is the president of the Brampton Sabha Hindu Temple, less than a block away. He says he has no enemies and believes the crime was motivated by hate.

Back in 2007, when he was first elected president of the Hindu temple, someone threw eggs at his front window.

Peel Police are treating the incident as a hate crime and are searching for two suspects, one of whom may have injured himself while setting the fire.

See links and video here; http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_33098.aspx

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/03/21/8832381-sun.html#/news/torontoandgta/2009/03/21/pf-8832381.html


p.s. Mr. Mahendra Gupta, the President of Hindu Sabha Temple, Brampton is my brother-in-law and we are all still shocked with this terrifying incident.

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Pramod Chopra
Senior Mortgage Consultant
Mortgage Alliance Company of Canada

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Originally posted by Pramod Chopra

CityNews Exclusive:

Brampton Religious Leader Targeted In Possible Hate Crime

Saturday March 21, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff

Mahendra Gupta is still in shock about an incident that happened while his family was sleeping.

The Brampton religious leader's home surveillance video caught two hooded men using an accelerant and setting fire to vehicles in his driveway around 2:30am Tuesday. The heat was so intense his car tires and an engine exploded.

Luckily, his 15-year-old son heard the car alarms go off and immediately ran to his parents' room and told them to call 911.

"He is my hero," Gupta stated. "He certainly saved our life. [Teenagers] usually don't wake up. But he did...and he did the right thing."

Gupta is the president of the Brampton Sabha Hindu Temple, less than a block away. He says he has no enemies and believes the crime was motivated by hate.

Back in 2007, when he was first elected president of the Hindu temple, someone threw eggs at his front window.

Peel Police are treating the incident as a hate crime and are searching for two suspects, one of whom may have injured himself while setting the fire.

See links and video here; http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_33098.aspx

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/03/21/8832381-sun.html#/news/torontoandgta/2009/03/21/pf-8832381.html


p.s. Mr. Mahendra Gupta, the President of Hindu Sabha Temple, Brampton is my brother-in-law and we are all still shocked with this terrifying incident.

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I agree with Nightmare

This is SAD BUT True

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'Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail.' (Param Vir Chakra awardee Lt. Manoj Pandey)

That's scary and horrible, luckily no one was hurt. Take care.

This is really sad news.........

I am really sorry to hear that Pramod ji....just read it, had no idea about this when spoke to you this morning. That is really scary.

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Pooja

this is scary...well hope the culprits will be caught soon and even if they are not they will be punished by GOD by hurting the ppl responsible for well being of the community..