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In a rage over her father's plan to get a new bride, have a son and give him the family land, Balwinder Kaur, one of Bachan Singh‘s daughters, hired two assasins to hack her father to death.
Businessman Bachan Singh Kingra of Vancouver had four daughters but he always yearned for a son to be the heir to his estate.
So he returned to his native village in Punjab after his wife had taken ill and last month began looking for a second wife.
After all, she had been taking care of her dad as he flew back and forth from Vancour and the family home in Chakar village, about an hour‘s drive from the industrial city of Ludhiana. Now police in India say Balwinder, 40, paid two assassins 100,000 rupees (C$2,636) to kill her father. Bachan Singh was hacked to death on the morning of September 1 by two men armed with sickles while on his way to a Sikh temple outside Chakar village. His body was found in a rice field. The Asian Pacific Post has learned that police found among his belongings a Canadian Permanent Resident Card bearing the number 2928–7020 valid until 2009. It is believed that Bachan Singh, who had celebrated his 64‘th birthday on August 10, became a Canadian landed immigrant on July 10, 1996. Jagraon District Senior Superintendent of Police R.K. Jaiswal told Indian media that police took about three weeks to piece together the murder conspiracy before arresting Balwinder, a widow with a 17-year-old daughter, and the men she allegedly hired as contract killers. He said Balwinder‘s three sisters, one in Canada, a second who lives in Moga District and the third from Mullanpur Village were not involved in the plot. Indian media reported that Balwinder had been living in the family home for about 15 years with her daughter. Jaiswal said the relationship between the father and daughter became strained after Bachan Singh contacted an Indian matchmaking service located near the Nanaksar Sikh temple in Jagroan, to look for a new bride. Indian newspapers said Bachan Singh‘s first wife, who is in her 50s, was ill and could not bear any more children. Balwinder apparently came to know of her father‘s intentions when the matchmaker arrived in Chakar village last month to check on the family estate and confirm details of the land owned by Bachan Singh. Investigators talked to local villagers, who allegedly told police that there used to be fights between the father and daughter over the marriage plans. At one point Balwinder was apparently ordered out of the family house and told to go live with her in-laws. Police claim that it then that Balwinder “decided to get her father killed” and grab the nine acres of land owned by him. They claim she contacted a friend identified as Jaswinder Singh Chinda, a man in his 30s who was involved in the local theatre. Police allege that Balwinder gave 100,000 rupees to Chinda to arrange for the murder. Chinda, police said, got in touch with another man identified only as Umesh, a migrant farm labourer in his 30s, who worked the rice fields of his in-laws in a nearby village. On September 25, Umesh and Chinda were taken into police custody along with Balwinder Kaur Jaiswal told a press conference that both had confessed to the killing. Police also recovered 5,000 rupees (C$132) from Umesh, which they believe was part of the money given to him for the murder. Investigators claim that Balwinder Kaur had withdrawn 125,000 rupees from her bank account shortly after the murder. Police believe that Balwinder tried to cover up her connection to the conspiracy on the morning of the murder. Jaiswal said when her father failed to return home after his morning prayers on Sept 1, Balwinder Kaur organized a search party comprising the village elders and went to look for him. The group found the body and called the police. | ||||
