Punjabi NRI acknowledges role in daugher-in-law’s murder
Thursday, 06/10/2016
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TORONTO: A 67-year-old Punjabiorigin man in Canada has acknowledged his role in covering up the 2009 murder of his pregnant daughter-in-law by helping his daughter to get 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.
A sentencing hearing for Litt, who has been in custody since April 2012, is set for later this month, the Toronto star reported.
On February 5, 2009, Poonam Litt was reported missing. Her husband, Manjinder Litt, was in India with his mother at the time. The Peel Regional Police commenced an extensive investigation.
Mandeep Punia, 35, sisterin-law of Poonam, 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.
A jury found Punia's husband Skinder guilty of accessory after the fact to manslaughter. He was also sentenced to seven years. They both were tried together.
