Who is the Indian-origin Sunny Bharad, who has spent 20 years in a US jail in a false case despite DNA evidence?

Gujarati-origin Sunny Bharadia was convicted and in 2003 was sentenced to life in jail without parole in the case of theft and sexual harassment, which took place in a city, which he never had to go. 22 years later, Bharadia was completely excluded in a case of justice on 16 May. In 2001, the incident occurred in Thunderbolt and Sunny Bhadia was 250 miles in Lithonia. Sunny’s car was at the crime site and distanced away from Sunny’s life for decades as he could not explain the justice system that he had already informed the police that his car was stolen. A familiar string flint of Sunny stole the car and threatened to kill Sunny, which Sunny informed to the police. The victim also identified the sterling flint, as he was a possible attacker. But when the victim was not shown a picture of Flint and he was shown a picture of Sunny, the victim recognized Sunny as an attacker. Both Sunny and Sterling were accused; Sterling blamed for stealing, but on the condition that he would not prosecute for a sexual offense. Sterling was testified against Bhardia and Bhardia.

DNA matching technology was not present at that time

The Georgia Innocence Project, which raised Sunny’s case, claimed that when the test started, there was no technique to match the DNA evidence. The woman with whom the assault was assaulted told that the attackers wore gloves – the same ones found from sterling. “However, several years later, when the Georgia Innocent Project took up the case of Sunny, the DNA test technique proceeded at the point that” Touch “DNA testing on the glove could be done. Using DNA from the skin cells left on the glove, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was capable of extracting a DNA profile and comparing it with a sample. Did not match DNA. However, it matched someone else: Sterling Flint, “said this. But it was already 2022 and a new hearing was scheduled in 2023. In 2024, Sunny was given a captive relief and in 2025, he was completely excluded. Bharadia said that he is grateful to walk free; He waited for years for this day. When he went to jail, he was in his twenty -seventh condition, and he spent his 30 and 40s in jail, as he is going to be 51 years old soon. Although his family has Indian origin, he has never visited India and his parents were also not born in India. After his arrest, his family members were swept away and now he is starting with his mother.