Canadian Sikh admits role in murder of daughter-in-law
Toronto, October 5
A 67-year-old Indian-origin man in Canada has acknowledged his role in covering up the 2009 murder of his pregnant daughter-in-law by helping his daughter in getting rid of the body.
Kulwant Litt from Brampton, Ontario, admitted that he helped dispose of his 27-year-old daughter-in-law Poonam Litt's body and said that he lied repeatedly to the police and court. Charges of accessory after the fact to murder and perjury were dropped.
A sentence hearing for Litt, who has been in custody since April 2012, is set for later this month.
On February 5, 2009, Poonam Litt was reported found missing after she failed to appear for work.
Her husband, Manjinder Litt, was in India with his mother at that time. The Peel Regional Police commenced an extensive investigation and public appeal.
During an argument in the family in 2009, Mandeep Punia, 35, sister-in-law of Poonam Litt, stabbed her in the neck with a box cutter and watched her bleed out on the floor, a judge found when sentencing Punia to 12 years in prison in August. — PTI
