Almost a full year since Deepa Agarwal, a University of Central
                           Florida student, was murdered in her Orlando apartment, the man
                      suspected of killing her remains at largeand her relatives charge that the
                      US and Indian governments are not doing enough to bring him to
                      justice.The suspect, Kamlesh Agarwal, a close relative of the victim and a
                      fellow student at the university, fled to India the day after the murder,
                      police say.

                      Some months later, in November, the US State Department filed a
                      provisional request with the Indian government to have him arrested and
                      extradited to stand trial in the US. While the provisional request that has
                      been filed does nothing more than inform the Indian government of the
                      charges against Kamlesh Agarwal and ask for his extradition, a formal
                      request for extradition, according to US government policy, cannot be
                      filed until the Indian government verifies that Kamlesh Agarwal has been
                      located within Indian borders.

                      According to Sheela Agarwal, the victim's sister, much is known about
                      Kamlesh's whereabouts, but the Indian authorities have thus far been
                      unable or unwilling, she told The Earth Times, to have him arrested and
                      extradited. She also charged that while US authorities have done
                      everything they are legally required to do thus far, they have not given
                      Indian authorities enough incentive to pursue the case and find Kamlesh
                      Agarwal. The State Department, she said, does not feel any obligation to
                      aggressively pursue extradition with the Indian authorities.

                      Sheela fears the murder is being viewed by American authorities as an
                      Indian rather than American matter despite Deepas US citizenship. She
                      said, I dont want Deepa to become just a case at the bottom of a stack
                      on some bureaucrats desk. Deepa deserves the same justice that any
                      other American would get.

                      State Dapartment officials working on the case did not return the calls of
                      this newspaper.

                      Sheela Agrawal has embarked on a campaign to pressure both the State
                      Department and the Indian authoritities. She recently launched a Website,
                      www.duke.edu/~sa9, which presents the facts of the case and the details
                      of her efforts to date. On July 11, the first anniversary of Deepa's death,
                      Sheela plans to lead a rally in front of the White House to raise awareness
                      in the media and within the American government about her sister's
                      murder and the pursuit of justice.