Toronto, April 16 (Inditop.com) A Sikh family here is under investigation after the disappearance of its daughter-in-law in February. Her husband has meanwhile announced an award of $25,000 for clues about her whereabouts.
Poonam Litt, who worked as a receptionist with a dentist, went missing Feb 5 on her way to work. She has never been heard of and there have been no clues about her whereabouts.
The woman, who leaves behind a three-year-old daughter, was reportedly pregnant at the time of her disappearance.
Since violence against women is common in South Asian homes here, police are not ruling out foul play.
The 27-year-old victim had moved to Canada from Punjab four years ago after marrying Manjinder Litt, a 31-year-old truck driver from the Toronto suburb of Brampton where many Punjabis live.
Interestingly, the woman’s husband was in India with his mother when she went missing.
Police told the local media that they suspect the family knows more than they have revealed to them.
The suspicion of foul play has been strengthened by revelations about the criminal past of the victim’s husband and father-in-law.
While her husband was sentenced in 2002 on charges of break-in and misbehaviour against a woman, her father-in-law Kulwant Litt was convicted of sexual assault in 2007.
In 2009, the father-in-law pleaded guilty to stalking another woman and is currently on probation.
The stalking charges against the victim’s father-n-law have led police to treat her disappearance as foul play.
Her husband has offered an award $25,000 to anyone offering clues to his wife’s whereabouts.
