A 64-year-old man of Indian origin, who was found innocent in a murder case on October 2 after spending 43 years in jail in the United States’ Pennsylvania, has been detained by the country’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is facing deportation .

The immigration authorities cited a “ legacy deportation order ” from the 1980s, linked to an earlier conviction of Subramanyam Vedam on drug charges, for its action, reported Miami Herald .

The man has filed a petition to stay the deportation.

Vedam had arrived in the US from India with his parents in 1962 when he was nine months old. He was arrested in 1982 for the murder of his friend, 19-year-old Thomas Kinser.

Kinser was reported missing in December 1980 and his remains were found in September 1981, with a bullet wound in h

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