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Despite that startling tone, the Litt family seems remarkably at ease as if nothing has occurred. Each member I have spoken with has said nothing untoward happened inside their happy household and that pregnant Poonam must have met her misfortune en route to her dental office job.
Dr. Roopali Sharma said knowing Poonam it is my feeling she did not leave for work because her key to the office was still at home after she disappeared.
Actually all of her personal effects remained at the home.
One the many mysteries in this story is that someone left the home in a minivan that day between 1-4 a.m.
Peel Police’s homicide squad has taken over the case, saying they consider it to be “foul play” and that there are people in this home who are “haunted” and “lying” and that it’s only a matter of time before the “truth” of this “despicable family secret” is realized.
Toronto, April 16 A Sikh family here is under investigation after the disappearance of its daughter-in-law in February. Her husband has meanwhile announced an award of $25,000 for clues about her whereabouts.
Poonam Litt, who worked as a receptionist with a dentist, went missing Feb 5 on her way to work. She has never been heard of and there have been no clues about her whereabouts.
The woman, who leaves behind a three-year-old daughter, was reportedly pregnant at the time of her disappearance.
Since violence against women is common in South Asian homes here, police are not ruling out foul play.
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While a missing woman’s mother cries at the news her daughter was pregnant, Poonam Litt’s husband said he will probe his own family to see if anyone has information on her bizarre disappearance.
Manjinder Singh Litt, 31, said he will start with his 61-year-old father, Kulwant Singh Litt.
“I will ask (Saturday),” said Manjinder, adding it will be the first time he has talked with his father about this since Feb. 5, 2009 — the day his 27-year-old wife vanished.
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....said at that time his father told him “he had left for work at 6 a.m. or 7 a.m., hours before she disappeared at 9 a.m.”
Manjinder said he left it at that and assumed something happened to his wife on her way to work.
“He is old world,” he said of his father who came from India in 2000. “We don’t talk about it.” In fact, he said, since his father has had trouble with the law during the 14 months following, he said “we don’t speak any more at all” despite living under the same roof.
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But Manjinder, who was in India with his mother when his wife vanished, said Wednesday that while he is co-operating, he does not believe there are any family secrets. "I have asked my father and sister so many times," he said.
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But holding their 31/2-year-old baby Kirinjot in his driveway, Manjinder said he is satisfied there is nothing untoward going on inside his home and that Internet innuendo of a conspiracy and a crime of honour are simply "not true."
Declaring that "I want my woman back," he said the Litt household is "happy" and added rhetorically: "If they (dad and sister) have any information, why don't they pass it along to police?"
After 14 months of silence, the case came to the forefront again earlier this month when Poonams father-in-law, Kulwant, who has a 2007 sexual assault conviction, was back before the courts on a criminal harassment stalking charge of a former female mistress whom he was ordered to not go near after previously pleading guilty for stalking.
Supinder said her once noble husband has shamed the family and, with him having his own room, she rarely speaks to him anymore.
Although family members have told her they dont know anything, Supinder said, if someone has done something wrong, or there was an accident, they should admit what they have done and close the story for Kiranjot and so that everybody knows what happened to Poonam.
Now, the Sun has learned, her 31-year-old husband, Manjinder Litt, was before the courts in 2002 and convicted of a break, enter and theft in Brampton, which had a female complainant telling police she had been non-sexually grabbed during the incident.
Father-in-law Kulwant said he had left for work at 7 a.m. two hours before his daughter, Mandeep, said Poonam handed her her two-year-old daughter, Kirinjot before walking to work.
But the Sun has learned that, before heading to India, Manjinder told the family Poonam was not to walk to work and had instructed his father to ensure the car be available to her to drive to and from the office.
Poonam, however, had complained to co-workers of a disagreement with Kulwant over the use of the car. However, Kulwant did drop it off for her at the dental office on Feb. 4 and it is understood Poonam had driven herself home from work the night before she went missing.
It is also understood she had access to the car the morning of her disappearance so there would have been no reason for to walk.
In another twist, court records show that 30-year-old Mandeep had on Aug. 13, 2009 bailed her father out of custody on a $5,000 surety with no deposit for his first harassment charge which later led to a guilty plea.
Then, a second time, she bailed him out April 1, 2010 on a second harassment charge and a breach of probation a case before the courts. Mandeep, holding her niece Kirinjot at her Cordgrass Cres. home, said somebody had to bail him out.
read more = http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/04/15/13604556.html#/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/04/15/pf-13604556.htmlDespite reports from others close to Poonam that she and Mandeep did not get along, Mandeep said this was untrue.
Were friends, she said as she hugged Poonams daughter tightly and raised her eyes with a look of confusion.
Don't know much about this culture...but...
Is it possible that she would have been sexually assualted by her father-in-law and kept it quiet? Is it possible that she became a threat to him only after becoming pregnant...or others knowing she was pregnant? This family is horrible...regardless of their involvement or not, though I can't imagine why LE doesn't haul them in for questioning. How do you go an entire year without talking about your wife and daughter-in-law....how long did they wait to file a missing persons report?
It was a question Manjinder Litt had been preparing to answer for some time, but when it finally came, his voice trembled and tears sprang to his eyes.
“I don’t know,” he told K*******, his 4-year-old daughter. “But I hope she comes back home soon.”
Litt, a trucker who was visiting India when his wife went missing, was stunned. “I’m still shaken,” he says in a recent interview. “First, I was going insane thinking what could have happened to Poonam … now police say someone in my family may be involved. I don’t know whether to grieve my wife or be angry with my family.”
While indications from police are that Poonam is dead, Litt refuses to believe them. He hasn’t held a funeral or organized the customary Sikh prayers.
The remains of Poonam Litt, the 27-year-old Brampton mother who was last seen three years ago and whose disappearance launched an extensive Peel police investigation, have been found.
Ontario Provincial Police found the remains on Feb. 23.
Police are holding a news conference Thursday to announce more details.
"We have no doubt Poonam Litt has met with foul play and the persons residing within the Litt household know very well what happened to her," English said.
Police have scheduled a 2 p.m. press conference to discuss the case.