Rajvinder Kaur Gill
Rajvinder Kaur Gill is a Canadian banker who disappeared in late August, 2012, while on a trip to Pakistan.[1] According to Gill's family they immigrated to Canada in 1999. Gill had worked for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce until 2006, when she took a job with ean International banking firm in Switzerland.
Accounts of the purpose of her trip differed. Some accounts said she had traveled to Pakistan to settle a long-standing debt. Other accounts said she was attending a conference.[2] Yet another account said the purpose of her trip was her first in-person meeting with a romantic interest she met online.
According to the Asian Journal it took months for Gill's family to be satisfied Pakistani officials had initiated a serious investigation into her disappearance.[1] [3] [4] Pakistani officials believe two men were responsible for her disappearance and death.[5] One suspect, a German citizen of Pakistani descent, who owed her a large sum of money, remains at large. Based on interrogation of the other suspect they believe Gill was lured to her death shortly after her arrival, and that her body was disposed of by throwing it in a canal.
Pakistani officials have two suspects, cousins Hafiz Shahzad Hussain and Shahid Ghazanfar.[1] "Ravinder Kaur Gill was allegedl strangled to death in Pakistan, body has yet to be recovered: Gill was a distant relative of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal" (in English). Asian Journal. 2013-01-07. Archived from the original on 2013-02-07. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asianjournal.ca%2Fjan%25204_13%2Fot_head1.html&date=2013-02-07. Retrieved 2012-11-. </ref>
Newspapers from Pakistan identify Gill as a member of the Sikh religion.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Ravinder Kaur Gill was allegedl strangled to death in Pakistan, body has yet to be recovered: Gill was a distant relative of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal". Asian Journal. 2013-01-07. Archived from the original on 2013-02-07. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asianjournal.ca%2Fjan%25204_13%2Fot_head1.html&date=2013-02-07. "According to a Facebook page set up by her family, Gill moved to Canada 13 years ago with her family and lived in Mission. She worked for CIBC in Vancouver until 2006. She had recently left her job at a private banking group in Zurich, Switzerland."
- ↑ "Pak looks for Sukhbir's missing relative in Lahore". Hindustan Times. 2012-11-17. Archived from the original on 2013-02-07. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2FPunjab%2FChandigarh%2FPak-looks-for-Sukhbir-s-missing-relative-in-Lahore%2FSP-Article1-960431.aspx&date=2013-02-07. Retrieved 2013-02-07. "Rajvinder Kaur Gill, a Canadian citizen of Indian origin, went missing shortly after she arrived in Lahore last August to attend a conference. Her father, Sikandar Singh, wrote a letter to Badal, seeking the Deputy chief minister's help in finding his daughter."
- ↑ Colin Freeze (2013-01-02). "Without a trace: Canadians missing in Afghanistan and Pakistan". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20130103033714/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/without-a-trace-canadians-missing-in-afghanistan-and-pakistan/article6876542/.
- ↑ Colin Freeze (2013-01-02). "B.C. woman, feared dead, is latest Canadian to vanish in Pakistan". Globe And Mail. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20130105001841/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/try-it-now/?articleId=6888595. Retrieved 2013-02-07. "A Canadian woman is feared murdered abroad, the latest in a series of mysterious disappearances of Canadian citizens in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rajvinder Kaur Gill, a 41-year-old involved in the jewellery business whose family is from British Columbia, travelled to Lahore in late August and was never heard from again."
- ↑ "Lawyer: Canadian-Indian woman killed in Pakistan over financial dispute". Globe And Mail. 2013-01-02. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20130103132111/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/try-it-now/?articleId=6861472. Retrieved 2013-02-07. "The lawyer, Aftab Bajwa, who represents the woman’s father, said the police chief of the eastern city of Lahore told a court Wednesday that a suspect confessed to killing the woman. A police officer said the suspect confessed to working with a German of Pakistani origin who was involved in the dispute, and together they killed the woman."
