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Amanpreet
was unhappy with the controlling atmosphere in the home
Surrey, Feb. 20, 2007
Ravinder Singh
Amanpreet's brother, Jugraj Kahlon, a criminal lawyer
in Punjab, her sisters Manjinder Gill and Sukhinderjit
Kaur after Amanpreet's funeral in Delta at which mourners
screamed for justice.
Media learnt from her close family:
- She was very unhappy with the controlling atmosphere
in the home she shared with her husband, in-laws and
her three children.
- She had no social life and was told not to wear
makeup or jewelry
- She was rarely allowed to speak to her overseas
relatives by phone.
- She had been unhappy since her marriage in India
in 1995.
- After the marriage, her husband Baljinder transferred
his one-third interest in the Newton house and the
Cloverdale farm to his parents, according to land
title records.
- Her in-laws and her husband would not be happy if
she wore makeup or jewelry or did not cover her head.
- She took an extreme effort to get permission from
the Bahia family to go to India for her brother's
wedding in 2003
- In her brother's marriage, Amanpreet said, "Do
not take a picture of me without my head covered,
and don't take a picture of me when I am dancing
because her in-laws did not like me to dance or
not cover my head."
- One sister said, "She was afraid to dress.
She was afraid to talk. In India, at my brother's
wedding she did not want to be photographed with
nice dress because they would shout at her."
- UK sister said, the her mother-in-law phoned
me in England and said, 'Don't call here because
you are misleading my daughter-in-law."
After the funeral, at a Surrey Sikh temple:
- Tension between Amanpreet's family and the Bahia
family boiled
- Amanpreet's brother, sisters, relatives and friends
left the temple when temple official praised the Bahia
family without even mention about the murdered woman.
- Mr. Kahlon (her brother) went to the stage, got
the microphone and said, " I was here for the
last rites of my sister and not here to listen to
politics."
Amanpreet's all relatives left the temple and went
to another temple to complete their own religious ceremonies.
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