Mukhtiar Panghali is a Canadian citizen who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the October 18, 2006 murder of his wife, Manjit Panghali. Manjit Panghali was four months pregnant at the time of the murder. Five days after her disappearance, her charred body was found on a remote beach along the Delta Harbor Causeway in South Delta, Canada. The couple had a three-year-old daughter when Mukhtiar killed Manjit Panghali.
Manjit Panghali and her three-year-old daughter Maya
Wiki/Biography
Mukhtiar Panghali was born in 1972 (50 years old as of 2022).
appearance
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
The names of his parents are unknown. He has a brother named Sukhvinder Panghali.
Mukhtiar Panghali’s brother Sukhvinder Panghali
wife and children
Mukhtiar Panghali is married to Manjit Panghali. She is an elementary school teacher in Surrey, Canada.
Mukhtiar Panghali and Manjit Panghali
The couple has a daughter named Maya.
Mukhtiar Panghali’s daughter Maya Panghali
Manjit Pangali murder case
In 2006, Mukhtiar Panghali was working as a physics teacher at Princess Margaret Secondary School in Surrey. His wife Manjit Panghali disappeared on October 18, 2006. She was last seen attending a prenatal yoga class in Surrey, Canada. Mukhtiar Panghali filed a missing complaint against his wife twenty-six hours after she went missing. Her badly burned body was found five days later on a remote beach along the Delta Harbor Causeway in South Delta, Canada.
media conference
After Manjit’s disappearance, Mukhtiar Panghali cried for his missing wife at several media conferences and appealed for her safe return.
Mukhtiar Panghali at media conference
autopsy report
The autopsy report stated that Manjit was strangled to death and her body was later moved to Delta Beach and burned.
arrest
Canadian police detained Manjit Panghali in March 2007 based on surveillance evidence that Mukhtiar purchased a lighter and newspaper from a local store on the night his wife disappeared. Mukhtiar used Manjit’s phone after her death and later told the same lie during the investigation.
repent
Initially, during the court proceedings, Mukhtiar Panghali claimed that he was not guilty of murder. However, Mukhtiar later admitted that he killed his wife Manjit Panjali because he had negative feelings for her.
conviction
In January 2011, Judge Heather Holmes sentenced Mukhtiar Panghali to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 15 years. In 2010, he was found guilty of second-degree murder and tampering with a corpse by the British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster. Shortly after the verdict, Crown prosecutor Dennis Murray recounted Manjit Panghali’s theory of murder as:
The teacher who murdered his wife after she came home from a prenatal yoga class staged the discovery of her car in Whalley and burned her body on a remote beach along the Delta Harbor Causeway in South Delta, Then file a missing persons complaint with the Surrey RCMP as long as possible. “
custody of daughter
Shortly after Mukhtiar was sentenced to life in prison by the British Columbia Supreme Court in 2011, Manjit and Mukhtiar’s families fought a long legal battle over custody of the couple’s only daughter, Maya. The court granted custody of her to Manjit’s sister Jasmine Bhambhra, who lives in Canada with her husband and three biological children. Shortly after gaining custody of her children, Jasmine Bhambra said at a media conference that she had gone through the most difficult time of her life while fighting for custody of Manjit’s daughter. she says,
Custody battles are scary and very painful, having to relive the trauma. It was so scary to see his face all the time. It was the most difficult time of my life. “
Jasmine Bhambra (Manjit’s sister) is on the left and Maya is second on the right
penalty for damages
Mukhtiar appealed against the conviction order twice, once in 2012 and again in 2014; however, his appeals were dismissed both times. In 2014, Manjit Panghali’s family applied for compensation under the Family Compensation Act on behalf of Manjit Panghali’s ten-year-old daughter Maya. Soon, Maya was awarded more than $500,000 for the loss of her mother, Manjit Panghali. The British Columbia Supreme Court judge’s order reads:
The court award was $555,000, which included $172,000 for future loss of assistance and child care, $129,000 for past loss of assistance and child care, $54,700 for the daughter’s loss of dependence on her mother, $165,000 for future loss of dependence and $35,000 for the loss of the child. Dollar. guide. An additional $58,600 will be set aside for public guardian and trustee fees. “
teaching ban
In February 2014, British Columbia’s teacher regulator banned Mukhtiar Panghali from teaching for twenty-five years. When this notice was served on him, he was serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife, who was four months pregnant. The notice reads as follows:
(Paghali’s) conduct fell completely short of the standards expected of teachers and confirms that teachers still adhere to high standards of ethical conduct, which supports public confidence in the profession as a whole. “
unescorted leaves
The Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Parole Board of Canada granted Mukhtiar Panghali unsupervised leave from prison in October 2021. During his vacation, he can meet his family and participate in social activities. However, the court along with the leaves issued a notice regarding Mukhtiar Panghali’s mental health condition. Mukhtiar remains at high risk for intimate partner violence, the report said. The court stated,
Psychologists report that if you commit a violent crime again in the future, it is likely to be related to a failure to control negative emotions in an intimate relationship. “
The Parole Board of Canada further said Mukhtiar would not contact Manjit’s family or the couple’s daughter Maya. The conditions further state,
As part of the terms of his release, Pongali cannot use drugs or alcohol and must report any intimate relationships and friendships with women. “
Facts/Trivia
- During the court proceedings in Manjit Panghali’s murder case, Mukhtiar and Manjit’s investment property and matrimonial home were sold by the court for more than $260,000. Shortly after the court sale of the property, both sides of the couple’s family filed claims.
- After the murder of Manjit Panghali, police investigation revealed that a neighbor of Manjit and the Mukhtiar family claimed that there was a problem between Manjit Panghali and her brother-in-law Sukhvinder Panghali. Neighbors told,
They kicked the brother-in-law out and she was like I had my house back. “
- In March 2022, Discovery Plus channel released a web series based on the married life and murder case of Manjit Panghali. The web series is titled ‘Til Death Do Us Part: The Manjit Basra Murder Case’.
Poster of a web series based on the life and death of Manjit Pangali
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education