Published on: Oct 14, 2025 09:26 am IST

Subramanyam Vedam, wrongfully convicted for homicide, has been launched after 43 years in jail. However, he now faces deportation to India.

Subramanyam ‘Subu’ Vedam, 64, has spent a lot of his grownup life in jail for a criminal offense he didn’t commit. When he was a 20-year-old scholar at State College, Pennsylvania, Vedam was wrongfully convicted for the homicide of his good friend and sentenced to life with out parole.

Subramanyam ‘Subu’ Vedam, 64, was wrongfully jailed for 43 years.(freesubu.org)

Now, 43, years later, he’s a free man — however Vedam’s troubles are removed from over. He now faces deportation to India — a rustic he left when he was simply 9 months previous.

Freed from jail after 43 years

On the morning of October 3, Subramanyam Vedam walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, the Pennsylvania jail the place he had spent the final 43 years.

The Indian-origin man was freed after a court docket discovered that prosecutors had hid proof that will have dismantled the case in opposition to him, proving his innocence, reported The Miami Herald.

However, upon his launch, Vedam was instantly taken into custody by officers of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). His household, ready at residence, learnt that he would stay in custody as a federal authorities detainee.

Vedam in ICE custody

“To our disappointment, on Friday Oct third, 2025 Subu was transferred to ICE custody. He is at the moment being held at Moshannon Valley Processing Center,” Vedam’s household stated in an announcement posted on the ‘Free Subu’ web site that’s devoted to his case.

“This immigration matter is a remnant of Subu’s unique case. Since that wrongful conviction has been formally vacated, and the costs in opposition to Subu have been dismissed, we’ve got requested the immigration court docket to re-open the immigration case and account for the truth that Subu has been exonerated,” the assertion stated.

Deportation order

ICE has cited a deportation order relationship again to the Eighties in taking Vedam into custody. The deportation order was tied not solely to his homicide conviction — which has been overturned — but in addition to an earlier drug conviction.

At the age of 19, Vedam had pleaded responsible to intent to distribute LSD. His household describes it as a youthful mistake.

India-born Vedam was ordered to be deported on the time, however the deportation was by no means carried out as he was serving a life sentence.

In an announcement despatched to the Miami Herald, ICE stated: “Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, people who’ve exhausted all avenues of immigration reduction and possess standing elimination orders are priorities for enforcement.

“ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) notes that Mr. Vedam, a profession prison with a rap sheet relationship again to 1980, can also be a convicted managed substance trafficker.

“Mr. Vedam shall be held in ICE custody whereas the company arranges for his elimination in accordance with all relevant legal guidelines and due-process necessities”.

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