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Did media speculate on the culture issue?
WSN Network

DELTA - Nearly a week after sections of the media panned the Punjabi culture for the killing of an infant, it is now being argued that culture was being raised unnecessarily in the slaying of toddler Rajvinder Kaur Kahlon in Delta and the local Sikh gurdwara president Balwant Singh Gill held the media guilty of unfair speculation in the matter.

He said the fact that of the accused suffering from mental illness was largely ignored. Meanwhile, the funeral for the baby girl was an emotional occasion and cremation took place at Delta's Five Rivers Funeral home. The accused Lakhvinder Singh Kahlon's wife Manjit says his deep depression had worsened and "has to be factored in to whatever terrible thing happened in the family's home before the toddler's body was found".

Lakhwinder, 47, did not get enough help with his depression, Manjit said. It seems the family is poor. Emotions overran at the funeral as the killed infant's older sister addressed about 200 people in attendance, standing by the side of the little white coffin and amid photos of happier times and bouquets of flowers. "It is a family tragedy and all these people who are talking don't know anything," the gurdwara president said.

The Vancouver Sun, in a spot report from the funeral, said the family has now no source of income and no potential for employment with Kahlon now in jail. It seems now a trust fund is being set up. The account is in Rajvinder's name at TD Canada Trust, number 6401672. 

30 January 2008
 

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