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Surrey, Oct 25, 2006
Sant Parkash

• "It was really out of her character," said Panghali, a physics teacher at Surrey's Princess Margaret Secondary. "She would not leave her family alone, she would not leave her daughter alone and she would not leave me alone." Panghali said his wife maintained a tight routine and it was out of character for her to stay away from home without informing anyone.
• He said he called police as soon as he was sure that no one among family or friends was aware of the whereabouts of his 30-year-old wife. "I reported her missing after 26, 27 hours," Panghali said yesterday. "Why? To make sure that she was in fact gone. I called friends and family to make sure no one knew anything
• Asked to describe his wife's demeanour as she left their home last Wednesday, he said: "She was as happy as could be." He said there had been no family problems at home.
• Panghali said he has tried his best to shelter his daughter Maya from events surrounding the disappearance of her mom. But the child keeps asking a "thousand questions."
• Manjit, a teacher at North Ridge Elementary in Greater Vancouver's Surrey suburb.
• CanWest News Service has learned from people who know both families that Manjit's disappearance has led to a rift between her family and her husband's family. Both sides hardly spoke to each other at the conference and left separately afterward.
• The principal of North Ridge Elementary, where Manjit teaches Grade 1 two days a week, sent letters home with her pupils yesterday advising parents that counselling is available for anyone who needed it.

  School district spokesman Doug Strachan said staff are doing what they can.

  "The students have been told in the school, as well as the class she taught."

  Manjit's husband Mukhtiar Panghali made a tearful plea to the public Monday asking for information on his wife's whereabouts.

  "I need your help, my daughter needs your help, my family needs your help," he said at a Surrey RCMP news conference.

  "Right now, I need you to please if you know anything to give back to us. Please, we need your help."

NRI Manjit Phangali's car found but she is still missing

Surrey, Oct 24, 2006
NRI press

NRI, Manjit Phangali of Surrey, BC, was last seen leaving her home on Oct. 18, for a pre-natal class in her silver 2001 Honda Accord registration 984 GBK

The car belonging to her, was found in the Greater Vancouver area but police would not disclose the exact location.

Her husband reportedly admitted that he waited for over 24 hours after his wife, a grade one teacher at a local elementary school, went missing before reporting to the police. They have been married for nine years.

Her sister Jasmine Bhambra said, "She has a three and half years daughter who misses her like crazy and who needs her and is waiting for her at home. She is four months pregnant. This is completely out of character for her."

Her husband, accompanied by half a dozen family members, attended a news conference Monday to plead for information about her whereabouts.

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