Earlier this year, six police stations were set up in Punjab to deal with NRI crimes since NRIs have increasingly apparently begun to arrange for contract killings in India because laws are far less systematically applied in India than in the countries where they live.
The Hindustan Times, for example, says, "Kuldeep Singh of Mukerian was killed in October 2005 following a land dispute with Gurdev Singh, an Indian living in the US. The NRI is said to have paid Rs 1.2 million for the contract killing." [1]
In addition to this, NRIs often face situations where their property in india is grabbed by relatives or by tenants who refuse to leave. According to the Times of India, '327 criminal cases were registered by police department last year on complaints filed by NRIs'. [2]
However, the first case to be filed in these police stations has been one which involves domestic violence, dowry issues and an NRI husband who appears to have deserted his wife. The case was filed by Deesho of Natha Nangal who married Kulwinder Lal of Rotanda in April 2003. Soon after her marriage, she began being harassed for dowry. her husband left her in his parents home when he went to Dubai but she shifted to her own parents' home because of their abuse. He apparently didn't visit her when he last came to India. [3]
Links:
[1] http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=fe31b492-8459-40c3-96ef-3cb4f83f6e89&&Headline=Contract+killings+on+the+rise+among+NRIs
[2] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Rise_in_NRI_complaints_in_Punjab/articleshow/2832201.cms
[3] http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/9914/38/
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