SURREY: On Aug.4, horrified Mounties gasped in shock when they were confronted with a dismembered body cooking in a pizza oven. “There was a skull, cheekbones, hands and feet,” Said Surrey RCMP Insp. Larry Gallagher.
“No doubt it was a human, but burned to complete ashes.”
The corpse was laid out on four pizza trays.
“It was a gruesome scene,” said Gallagher. “It would remind you of some of the concentration camps during the Second World War. When you see some of those films, then you know what I’m talking about.
“This is probably the worst I’ve seen.” While the police are trying to unravel the mystery of the gruesome murder and teach whose body it is, friends of Hari Singh Dhindsa, a Sikh immigrant who disappeared on July 21, suspect it might well be the body of Dhindsa.
“We think he’s been murdered,” said his best buddy, Paul Nagra. Nagra says Dhindsa was involved in a bizarre set of marriage promises with three women one here and two in India. The usually hardworking, nondrinking Dhindsa was on edge prior to his disappearance.
“One day he told us somebody was threatening him, so we asked him to tell the police,” said Nagra.
Dhindsa told Nagra the caller “told him to leave Vancouver.”
“He said he would complain to the police, but he did not.”
Dhindsa was last seen leaving his East 49th Avenue basement suite late on July 21. He told roommates he was meeting a woman and was seen getting into a car driven by a woman.
Friends notified Vancouver police when he failed to return home.
He has not been seen since.
“He was a real good worker,” said his boss, contractor Balwinder Virk. “All the time, he worked.” Virk says Dhindsa was saving to pay for his wife to join him.
Dhindsa entered Canada in 1989 after what Nagra calls a “marriage of convenience.” About 18 months ago, Dhindsa divorced his wife and applied to sponsor to Canada a woman who lives in India.
But Nagra says that while visiting India last December, Dhindsa met a third woman and married her in February.
He returned to Canada in March a married man and broke off his relationship with woman No 2.
Soon afterwards, Dhindsa to Immigration Canada that he wanted to sponsor his new wife.
Dhindsa’s parents in India and his new wife have been told he is missing.
Store owner Palminder Sangha, who was unavailable for comment and his son ever questioned by police and were to be released without charge.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 20, 1993
