The British Columbia Police issued a country-wide arrest warrant against 24-year-old Amarbir Singh as he emerged as the main accused in the murder of a 28-year-old woman, Navdeep Kaur. Kaur disappeared in 2024 and her remains were found after five months. Singh and Kaur were in a relationship. Police said a timeline of events leading to Kaur’s death was pieced together by investigators and submitted to the BC Prosecution Service for charge approval. Singh was charged with second-degree murder last Friday. The department said they are prepared to work with overseas police to track Singh down and bring him back to Canada. “We are aware that Mr. Singh may have fled the country, but that will not stop us from pursuing him,” Sergeant Freda Fong of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a statement.Kaur was last seen at around 10.30 pm on Feb 22, 2024. The disappearance was reported by her family a day later as they expressed concern for her well-being and informed the cops that it was unusual for Kaur to not contact the family. On July 23, 2024, Richmond RCMP said they had found human remains in the Fraser River, in an industrial area at the end of Williams Street, and were working with the coroners’ service to identify them. Later that year, the remains were identified as those of Kaur’s.
Is Amarbir Singh now in India?
Fong told Global News in an email that the investigators believe that Singh fled to India towards the end of 2024 after being interrogated in connection with the case. At that time, he was not chargeable and he was last known to be in India, Fong added. She also confirmed Singh did not have a criminal record in Canada and had a very limited history with the police.An immigration expert told Global News that returning Singh could take a long time. “If the pockets are deep, you buy top legal talent and you get years in a process,” lawyer Richard Kurland said. “In addition, there are domestic safeguards. For example, in India, they have a process before putting a person on a plane to Canada, and so there is no deadline, there is no enforceable control. There are politics, diplomacy.”
