The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has supplied a reward of as much as $250,000 for data resulting in the arrest of Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, a 33-year-old Indian nationwide needed for killing his spouse in Maryland, US, in 2015.

Bhadreshkumar Patel, who was final recognized to be within the Newark space of New Jersey, is thought-about “armed and extremely dangerous”, reported information company PTI.

Patel is on the FBI’s list of ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ and the federal company introduced a reward of as much as $250,000 for data resulting in his arrest.

Initially, the FBI had offered a $100,000 reward for information about Patel.

He is accused of murdering his spouse, Palak Patel, by putting her a number of occasions with an object at one of his family’ Dunkin’ Donuts store, the place they each labored the evening shift, in Hanover, Maryland.

The FBI believes the homicide occurred simply earlier than midnight on April 12, 2015.

After the homicide, a buyer who entered the store realised one thing was unsuitable when nobody got here to take his order.

He alerted a Police Department officer who found Palak Patel’s physique.

(*10*) stated Special Agent Jonathan Shaffer with the FBI’s Baltimore Division.

FUGITIVE’S WIFE WANTED TO RETURN TO INDIA FROM US

According to investigators, Palak Patel, who was 21 on the time, needed to return to India, however her husband was towards it. Their visas had expired a month earlier than the homicide.

“The best guess is that he didn’t want her to leave,” Shaffer stated. “It’s possible he thought he would be disgraced by her leaving and returning to India.”

After the homicide, Patel fled the scene. A federal arrest warrant was issued for him a number of days later.

The FBI believes Patel could also be with family within the United States or might have fled to Canada and even again to India.

“Those are among the plausible options we are exploring,” Shaffer stated.

Patel has been charged with first-degree homicide, second-degree homicide, assault, and harmful weapons with intent to injure, the FBI stated in a press release, reported PTI.

The FBI is asking anybody with details about Patel’s whereabouts to contact them.