Indian documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, who is being prosecuted in the US for carrying brass knuckles in a prohibited place, could get a jail term of up to 10 years if convicted. Forty-year-old Kumar, a resident of Malad in Mumbai, was detained at Houston international airport for reportedly carrying brass knuckles and jihadist literature in his luggage and is now “stuck” in a federal custody since last week.
Kumar is being prosecuted for carrying brass knuckles in a prohibited place, a third degree felony, punishable by two to 10 years in prison, said Donna Hawkins of the Harris county district attorney’s office. In Texas, brass-knuckles are prohibited by law so he was booked on a felony charge of possessing a prohibited weapon in a prohibited place (airport).