Rajesh Kumar, a 35-year-old Fiji native, was arrested Sunday in Sacramento on a $250,000 warrant alleging fraud. Kumar is accused of defrauding a woman who took cover and survived the Dec. 27, 2007, shootings that killed Ravinder Kalsi and his brother, Paramjit Kalsi.Police have said they do not believe Kumar was the shooter in that case and declined to give details of the alleged fraud.The brothers were closing up Sahib Indian Restaurant at 12221 San Pablo Ave. at about 9 p.m. when two people approached the door. As Ravinder, 30, let them in, he was shot. The two assailants then chased Paramjit, 42, to the kitchen, shooting him numerous times.
The seemingly random killings of the two well-liked brothers shocked the East Bay Sikh community and baffled police at the time.Investigators later determined that a woman who was also in the restaurant took cover during the shooting and was not hit. Kumar allegedly defrauded the woman, police said. The Kalsis had bought the restaurant five years earlier. The brothers immigrated to the United States in 1997 from the town of Patijla, about 150 miles north of New Delhi. Carpenters in India, they did construction work in Berkeley for several years until they saved enough to buy a house. They bought, renovated and sold or leased several houses over the years, eventually earning enough to open their restaurant and send money home to India.One of the brothers was engaged to a woman in India, and the brothers planned to sell the restaurant and return home for the wedding at the end of the month.
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