Punjab woman strangled in Canada, live-in partner from Delhi held

3 min readLudhianaUpdated: Jul 25, 2026 09:50 AM IST Damanpreet was a native of Lal Kalan village of Samrala in Ludhiana district, and had gone to Canada on study visa around five years ago. (Express Photo)A 23-year-old Indian-origin woman from Punjab was allegedly strangled to death by her live-in partner, also an Indian national from Delhi, in Canada’s Edmonton, as per the local police. The accused, identified as Ritesh Kumar, 22, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder of Damanpreet Kaur, in what the Edmonton police, described as an “intimate partner homicide”.Damanpreet was a native of Lal Kalan village of Samrala in Ludhiana district, and had gone to Canada on study visa around five years ago. She was the only child of her parents, who had taken loans to send her to Ca