Immigration deported Parikh on April 12 EDISON - Rajnikant Parikh, the Edison resident who accused the Edison Police department of brutality following a Fourth of July arrest last year, was deported to his native India on Thursday following charges that he was in the country illegally. Adam Puharic, a representative from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's Newark Bureau, said in a statement that an immigration judge reinstated a former order of deportation for Parikh, who had been arrested more than 10 years prior under the name Amit Sheth. According to the release, Parikh, then under the moniker Amit Sheth, entered the country illegally in 1995 and was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol in Texas. Parikh was at that point ordered to be deported, and returned four years later in 1999 under his current name. Parikh entered the country under an H1B, non-immigrant visa and settled in Edison Township. He was arrested on Aug. 2, 2006, by ICE during a rally held against the Edison Police Department after an investigation into his previous arrest on July 4, 2006, yielded that there had been no wrongdoing by police. In the statement, Puharic said that the Parikh case "graphically points out the necessity of maintaining the integrity of the nation's immigration laws." Parikh was arrested and charged by Edison police on July 4, 2006, with aggravated assault on an officer, rioting, failure to disperse and resisting arrest when Dotro attempted to ticket a car that was illegally parked in an intersection during a Fourth of July party. During that arrest, Parikh alleged that the arresting officer, Michael Dotro, assaulted him. Parikh was involved in a rally on Aug. 2, 2006, when plainclothes officers from ICE arrested him on the deportation charge and held him pending hearings on his deportation. Those hearings came to a decisive end when ICE deported Parikh on Thursday. Parikh's attorney, Ravender Bhalla, responded to the deportation of his client. "It's unfortunate that my client didn't get a chance to clear his name in open court," Bhalla said. Bhalla said that if the township of Edison feels that there problems are over now that Parikh has been deported they are wrong. "He is still considering filing a lawsuit in connection with the Aug. 2 arrest," Bhalla said.