Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann fled to Canada from Bakersfield in California when his 15-year-old cousin told the court that he was the father of her baby boy
The Canadian Bazaar
BRAMPTON: Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann, a 26-year-old Punjabi man who was wanted in Bakersfield in California for raping his cousin, was arrested from Brampton and extradited to the US.
Mann was wanted in California for rapng and fathering a boy with his underage 15-year-old cousin in 2018.
But the newly born boy was drowned to death immediately by his naani (maternal grandmother) Beant Kaur Dhillon to avoid family shame.
According to court documents, Mann was present when his cousin gave birth to the boy on November 12, 2018. The girl’s mother Beant Kaur Dhillon was also present.
Hours after the birth of the boy, Beant Kaur Dhillon and Mann dug a hole in the backyard of the home, placed the baby into the hole, put salt in the hole, and buried the baby.
After burying the boy, Beant Kaur Dhillon told her daughter that he has been given for adoption. But weeks later when her daughter discovered that her baby boy has been murdered and buried in their home’s backyard, she reported the matter to Bakersfield police.
Police exhumed the body and arrested Beant Kaur Dhillon and her husband Jagbir Singh Dhillon on February 26, 2019. The husband was granted bail, but he commited suicide by hanging himself.
After a trial that concluded on March 5 this year, Beant Kaur Dhillon was jailed for 25 years.
During the trial, Beant Kaur Dhillon’s daughter told the court that the father of her child was her older cousin Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann. She also told the court that she gave birth to the boy alone in a bathtub and then became unconscious and does not remember anything after that.
Police in Bakersfield issued warrants for Mann, but he fled to Canada after removing a GPS monitoring device and went into hiding in Brampton.
But early in March when community members came to know that a man residing in Brampton was wanted in the US, they reported him to Peel Police.
Peel Regional contacted the US authorities and the Canada Border Security Agency to confirm whether this man was wanted in California.
On Friday, Bakhshinderpal Singh Mann was arrested and deported to the United States.
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