GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 31st Jan. Calgary Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday that Bipinjot Gill, 26-year-old man from Punjab has been deported to India less than a year after he was found guilty of a car crash that killed a woman and her elderly mother in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Bipinjot Gill, who arrived in Canada in 2016 on a student visa, sped through a red light in Calgary on May 18, 2019, killing Uzma Afzal, 31, and her mother, Bilquees Begum, 65, on the spot.
Calgary Herald newspaper reported that he left Canada after his attempts to have a deportation order stayed were rejected by a Federal Court judge.
Judge Shirzad Ahmed said in his ruling “The applicant committed and was convicted for a serious crime. Lives were lost. The families of the victims will never see family members again,”.
He dismissed Gill’s claims that he would face harm if returned to India by not being able to access treatment for his mental health issues.
“And while (Gill) has struggled with substance abuse and mental health issues, he has been found criminally responsible for his conduct by a competent court of law.”
Gill was 21 at the time of the accident, was behind the wheel of a Hyundai that crashed into a Toyota Corolla at the intersection of Metis Trail and 128 Avenue N.E. in the early morning hours of May 18, 2019.
Two women were pronounced dead on the spot, the driver of the Toyota, Begum’s husband, and Uzma’s husband were taken to the hospital in critical condition.
He was convicted of the double fatality case in April 2023 and sentenced in November to a term of house arrest, 300 hours of community service, and one year of probation.
Gill was also convicted of dangerous driving and fleeing from a peace officer in August 2019, three months after the accident, the judge noted.
He was issued a deportation order on September 6, 2022, after being found “inadmissible to Canada for serious criminality,” The Herald reported.
Gill’s lawyer said his client ran out of time in his bid to stay the deportation order and acted without legal counsel for too long.
A native of Punjab, Gill earned a two-year diploma from Bow Valley College in 2018.
His parents and brother are in Canada on temporary visas, while his uncle and grandparents are Canadian citizens, the newspaper stated.
Musk announces Neuralink brain implant procedure in first human recipient ‘succeeded’
By Anjali Sharma
NEW YORK – Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the founder of Neuralink on Tuesday announced that the first human recipient of an implant from the brain-chip startup underwent the procedure on Sunday and is recovering well.
Musk posted on X, “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.”
Neuralink was given clearance by the US Food and Drug Administration last year to conduct its first trial to test its implant on humans.
“Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Musk’s post added.
According to Neuralink’s website, it has received approval from the independent institutional review board.
According to the company’s website The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) – an investigational medical device trial for fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface aims to evaluate the safety of our implant (N1) and surgical robot (R1) and assess the initial functionality of our BCI for enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.
During the study, the R1 Robot will be used to surgically place the N1 Implant’s ultra-fine and flexible threads in a region of the brain that controls movement intention. Once in place, the N1 Implant is cosmetically invisible and is intended to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes movement intention. The initial goal of our BCI is to grant people the ability to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone, it said.
The PRIME Study is being conducted under the investigational device exemption awarded by the FDA in May 2023 and represents an important step in our mission to create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs, it added.
Musk and his company have faced massive criticism for the trial of “brain chips” on lab animals.
In February 2022, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine submitted a complaint alleged that Neuralink did “invasive and deadly brain experiments.”
The company was being investigated by federal authorities for potential violations of animal welfare standards, with documents indicating that the company had murdered around 1,500 animals, including rats, monkeys, pigs, and mice, since 2018.
Neuralink fought against these very serious allegations claimed that the rhesus macaque monkeys under its care were “respected and honored” by the team.
