Canada-based Indian blames
Air Canada for her father’s death
Ottawa, Nov 6: An Indian-origin Canadian woman has accused Air Canada of negligence that caused her 83-year-old father’s death during a flight from Delhi to Montreal. Shanu Pande, a resident of Ontario, along with her father Harish Pant left Delhi for Canada in September on an Air Canada flight. Seven hours later, when the long-haul flight was over Europe, Pant developed severe medical symptoms: chest pain, back pain, vomiting, loss of bowel control and the inability to stand up. Subsequently, Pande pleaded with the cabin crew to divert the plane and land in order to get her father to a hospital. However, the flight stayed on course for nine more hours, travelling over Ireland, across the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Canada before landing in Montreal, where paramedics were waiting. But Pant died as they worked on him. (PTI)
Indian man gets life in prison for stabbing wife
to death in US
New York, Nov 6: An Indian man has been sentenced to life in the US state of Florida for fatally stabbing his 26-year-old wife 17 times and then driving over her body before fleeing from the scene in 2020, a media report said. Philip Mathew pleaded no contest to the first-degree murder of Merin Joy, who was planning an escape from an abusive relationship. According to police, Mathew blocked Joy’s car with his vehicle at the parking lot of Broward Health Coral Springs hospital, where she worked. He then slashed her repeatedly and drove over her body on the ground before driving off, police added. Joy revealed the identity of her attacker before succumbing to her injuries, which eventually led to Mathew’s arrest. (IANS)
