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Punjab-origin NRI
shames community, kills infant daughter
WSN
Network
CHANDIGARH: Punjabis
will have to clearly do a lot more to get rid of blots like this.
Just two weeks after an Indian-American with roots in Ambala set his
family on fire and killed his pregnant daughter, an Indo-Canadian of
Punjab origin has now been charged with killing his
two-and-half-year-old daughter in the Vancouver suburb of Delta
because he reportedly did not like having a third girl child.
Lakhvinder Singh
Kahlon (47), who belongs to Punia village in Nakodar in Jalandhar
district, allegedly slit the throat of his child on Friday morning
at their home when his wife, Manjit, was away to drop their two
older daughters at school. Manjit found the baby dead upon her
return home at 8.45 am. The cops have not revealed how the daughter
was killed but the neighbours quoted the wife saying her throat was
slit.
Media reports said
Kahlon, a construction worker, was reportedly unhappy since baby
Ravinder's birth and had stopped going to work.
Kahlon was formally
charged with first degree murder on Saturday. Kahlon family
immigrated to Canada from Punjab many years ago. Their other two
daughters, 9 and 12, were born in Delta, which like neighbouring
Surrey, has a huge Indian-origin population.
Lakhvinder has now been asked to undergo psychiatric check-up by the
Surrey Provincial Court which will now decide whether he is fit to
stand trial when he appears before it again on February 15. He faces
first-degree murder charge. Kahlon looked deeply depressed when he
appeared in court. The defence lawyer is expected to demand leniency
because of his mental state at the time of the crime. Radio talk
shows were flooded with calls from outraged people, blaming the
feudal Punjabi culture - that prefers sons to daughters - for the
tragedy.
23 January 2008
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