Your Singhs today (Halifax edition)

Halifax, Canada, police have closed their file3 on the death, last October 19th, of Gursimran Kaur, a 19-year-old resident of the Canadian city. The young woman, originally from India, had immigrated to Canada with her mother about two years previously.

Balbir Singh, secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society, told the meeja that Ms Kaur's body was found by her mother at the Mumford Road Walmart, where the two had worked for about two years. 

According to police, the mother became frantic on the night of October 19th after her daughter failed to answer her phone during the Saturday night shift. The mother, whose name was not released, eventually opened the bakery oven and found her daughter's burned body.

On November 18th, a Halifax Regional Police spokesthingy posted a video on Facebook, saying police "do not believe that anyone else was involved in the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death." To this day, no further information, such as the cause of Ms Kaur's death, has yet to be released. 

If it wasn't for Mr Singh saying the quiet part out loud, we wouldn't even know her name, ethnicity, or religion. "We acknowledge the public’s interest in this case and that there are questions that may never have answers," said the cop in the video. "Please be mindful of the damage public speculation can cause."

So everything's OK then. Please stop asking questions such as:

- How is it that the mother was the first to find the girl's body?

- Did she not notify police before going to search the store by herself?

- How did she know exactly where to look, without saying anything to anyone else?

- Were there no CCTV cameras in the area?

- Did the oven not have a mechanism, similar to that on a microwave, preventing it from being operated unless it was locked from the outside?

- Was Ms Kaur engaged to be married to a suitable boy who was supposed to be coming from India?

- Was she, errr, with child?

On October 30th, the Sikh organization said Ms Kaur’s father and brother were headed to Halifax from the Punjab region of India, having received emergency visas on compassionate grounds. So far as is known, they arrived in Canada shortly thereafter, and are still in the country.

Any rumours concerning "honour killing" are, of course, completely unfounded.