Hearing in Canadian woman murder case adjourned

LAHORE: An additional district and sessions court on Wednesday adjourned hearing in a murder case of a Canadian national Sikh woman, Rajvinder Kaur Gill, due to the lawyers’ strike. The prosecution witnesses were unable to record their statements after which the court adjourned the hearing by July 24.

On January 2, 2013 Sarwar Road police had registered an FIR on the complaint of Sikandar Singh Gill, father of the victim girl. Sikandar Singh Gill stated that his daughter Rajvinder Kaur reached Lahore Airport from Canada on August 25, 2012.

He said when she reached Lahore, she had Canadian passport, cash, a laptop, gold ornaments and other things of personal use with her. He added that she was in contact with Shahid Ghazanfar alias Karishna Roy and Shehzad but so far they could not find her neither she called her family telephonically after reaching Pakistan.

Later, Sarwar Road police arrested Shahzad and produced him before the Cantonment judicial magistrate. The accused confessed his crime–kidnapping and murdering the woman on the behest of Shahid Ghazanfar alias Karishna Roy. Shehzad stated that he was involved in the plot of killing the Sikh businesswoman by a relative named Shahid, also a German national. Shahid and Shehzad gave her a tea spiked with sedatives to make her unconsciousness.

They strangled her and dumped her body in Khanpur Canal off Lahore-Sheikhupura Road.