Missing Canadian: CJP requested to keep police looking for body

Father of murdered woman leaves Pakistan.

LAHORE:

The father of missing Canadian Sikh Rajvindar Kaur Gill has urged the chief justice of Pakistan to keep up pressure on the police to find his daughter’s body, while the police continued to gather evidence in the case on Wednesday.

Sources close to the investigation told The Express Tribune that Gill’s hairdryer had been recovered from Hafiz Shehzad Hussain, one of her alleged killers, who is in police custody.

The rental car in which Gill was picked up from Allama Iqbal International Airport and later killed has also been taken into custody by the police.

According to the police, Hussain has confessed to killing her along with a relative named Shahid Ghazanfar, a German national of Pakistani origin who has fled the country. Hussain has confirmed that the rental car was used in the murder, said the sources.



Gill’s father Sikandar Singh Gill and her brother-in-law Indarjeet Singh, who had been in Pakistan since December 20, crossed into India via the Wagha border crossing on Wednesday. They are to stay with relatives in Amritsar for a few days before returning to Canada.

Before leaving, Singh Gill wrote to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry requesting him to ensure that the police keep up the search for his daughter’s body. He wrote that his case had been taken seriously by the police only after it had been taken up by the Lahore High Court. He said that since the court had disposed of his petition with directions to the police to continue the investigation on merit, the police had been less vigorous in searching for her body.



Singh Gill has also handed power of attorney to Advocate Rana Abad Ali to pursue the case. Ali said the family would return to Pakistan once the trial of the accused begins.

Singh told The Express Tribune that despite his daughter’s murder in Pakistan, his experience here had been positive. He said he had had not had positive feelings about Pakistan before coming here. “During my stay most people have been very keen to help without asking for anything in return,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10^th, 2013.