Mukhtiar Panghali

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Mukhtiar Panghali is an Indian Canadian man who murdered his four months pregnant wife, Manjit Panghali, on 18 October 2006, and the badly burnt body of Manjit Panghali was found five days later on a remote beach along DeltaPort causeway in South Delta in Canada. Manjit Panghali was four months pregnant at the time of the murder, and she was a mother to a three-year-old daughter. Manjit Panghali with her three years old daughter, Maya.Mukhtiar Panghali was working as a physics teacher at Princess Margaret Secondary School in Surrey in 2006.On 18 October 2006, Manjit Panghali, the wife of Mukhtiar Panghali, went missing after returning from a prenatal yoga class in Surrey, Canada. The remains of her burnt body were found five days later on a Delta beach.The autopsy examination revealed that Manjit Panghali was first strangulated to death and then burnt. Mukhtiar panghali took 26 hours to lodge the missing complaint of Manjit Panghali to the Canadian police.Soon after Manjits disappearance, Mukhtiar was spotted attending media conferences and pleading for the safe return of his wife. Mukhtiar Panghali during a media conference.In March 2007, Mukhtiar Panghali was arrested by the police. The surveillance evidence showed that Manjit was first taken home from her yoga classes and strangulated to death by Mukhtiar before he burnt her body and moved it to Delta beach.During the court trials, Mukhtiar initially pleaded that he was not guilty, but later confessed that he murdered his wife. He was caught red-handed by the Canadian police when he used Manjits phone after her death and went to a local store on the night of the murder, and later, lied about the same. In surveillance footage, Mukhtiar was caught buying a lighter and a newspaper at the night when his wife, Manjit Panghali, disappeared. Father and sister of Manjit Panghali during a media conference.Soon after the murder of Manjit Panghali, the investment property and the matrimonial home of the family was sold for over $260,000. The family members of Manjit and Mukhtiar came forward to claim the amount of the properties soon after the sale by the court.During the court proceedings, Crown prosecutor Dennis Murray stated Manjit Panghalis murder theory as, The teacher killed his wife after shed returned home from a prenatal yoga class, staged the discovery of her car in Whalley, burned her body on a remote beach along DeltaPort causeway in South Delta, and then delayed for as long as he could to lodge a missing persons complaint with the Surrey RCMP..In December 2010, the Canadian police revealed in its investigation that they had found some letters and a diary of Manjit Panghali in which she described her depression and bitter married life with Mukhtiar Panghali. In one of the entries in her diary, she wrote, I am writing today because I thought that I would never let myself get to this point. I am clinically depressed and on medication. I am so scared. My husband does not give me the support I need. She further penned that she was trying hard to keep her married life from falling apart. She wrote, We need to do some work on our marriage. We need to plan it in order that our relationship doesnt disintegrate. We need to do some work on this relationship. I need to stay connected to him. Make him love me again..