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.