Chandigarh, February 02, 2006
NRI, Baldeep
Kaur, a Canadian Citizen from Winnipeg, in good health
landed in in-laws house about 12 days ago. Baldeep
died mysteriously four days later and was cremated,
allegedly in haste, by her in-laws in the backyard
of their village house.
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Chandigarh, February 02, 2006
IANS
The Canadian police are likely to arrive in Punjab
this month to help investigate the mysterious death
of 22-year-old Canadian national Baldeep Kaur who
died in Faridkot district Jan 25.
Baldeep's family has filed a complaint with the police
that she was murdered by her in-laws for the gold
jewellery that she was carrying.
Senior Faridkot police officials said they were investigating
the matter and were not yet convinced of the murder
charge.
The victim had arrived from Winnipeg with her husband
Amandeep Singh and 10-month-old daughter Simran for
a three-month vacation at their village in Faridkot
district Jan 21.
She died mysteriously four days later and was cremated,
allegedly in haste, by her in-laws in the backyard
of their village house.
The police officers said the village's women who
came to bathe the body before the cremation said there
were bruises on it and that it had turned blue.
The victim's mother, Gurcharan Brar, who arrived
in Faridkot town, told police that Baldeep's in-laws
could have poisoned her.
She said that no doctor was called and Baldeep was
cremated hastily without getting a post mortem done.
She said that Baldeep's relations with her husband
had soured in the two years of their marriage and
her in-laws had asked her to bring all her gold jewellery
while coming to India.
The mother said the local police had registered a
case against her after she removed Baldeep's ashes
from the makeshift cremation ground.
She alleged that the Faridkot police was under pressure
from a ruling Congress politician who was close to
her son-in-law's family.
But police officers investigating the case insisted
that the murder theory seemed to be an after-thought
as Baldeep had been cremated with the consent of her
own family.
They, however, said that their counterparts from
Canada were likely to join investigations.
