<div><font color="Navy">Vancouver truck driver sentenced to life in Indian prison for killing his wife
By Sam Cooper, The ProvinceJune 10, 2012
Manjit Badyal (L) was sentenced to life imprisonment in India
for the contract killing of his wife, Kuldeep Badyal (R) in 2009,
when she was shot dead on her way to a Sikh temple in
northeast Punjab. Indian police told Kuldeep's cousin
Badyal planned to profit from a life insurance policy on
Kuldeep, and return to Vancouver to marry
a mistress.
Photograph by: Submitted photo, For The Province
The Delta family of a 32-year-old mother shot to death during a trip to India is hailing a life-sentence handed to her husband in Hoshiarpur, India.
In March 2009 police in India announced the arrest of Vancouver truck driver Manjit Singh Badyal, on suspicion of hiring contract killers to murder his wife, Kuldeep Kaur Badyal. The couple had been in India for several months, when the wife was shot in the chest at close range as she was going to visit a Sikh temple in the northeast Punjab. She died on the spot.
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By Sam Cooper, The ProvinceJune 10, 2012
Manjit Badyal (L) was sentenced to life imprisonment in India
for the contract killing of his wife, Kuldeep Badyal (R) in 2009,
when she was shot dead on her way to a Sikh temple in
northeast Punjab. Indian police told Kuldeep's cousin
Badyal planned to profit from a life insurance policy on
Kuldeep, and return to Vancouver to marry
a mistress.
Photograph by: Submitted photo, For The Province
The Delta family of a 32-year-old mother shot to death during a trip to India is hailing a life-sentence handed to her husband in Hoshiarpur, India.
In March 2009 police in India announced the arrest of Vancouver truck driver Manjit Singh Badyal, on suspicion of hiring contract killers to murder his wife, Kuldeep Kaur Badyal. The couple had been in India for several months, when the wife was shot in the chest at close range as she was going to visit a Sikh temple in the northeast Punjab. She died on the spot.
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