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Insurance cash still in limbo
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Court says man who bludgeoned, stabbed wife to death not entitled to $50,000 payout A Toronto man stood to collect $50,000 from an insurance company after his estranged wife was slain in 2006. The only problem was he was the one who had brutally bludgeoned and stabbed her to death. Scotia Life Insurance Company agreed to pay Ved Dhingra the policy benefit because a court ruled he wasn’t criminally responsible for the killing. Now, a higher court says he can’t have the payout, leaving the cash in court-held limbo. In 2008, a Newmarket court found that, although Dhingra caved in his wife’s head with a religious statue and stabbed her repeatedly in her Richmond Hill home, he wasn’t responsible for her 2006 death because he suffered from schizoaffective disorder. Dhingra, who was confined
“It’s not about money for me. It’s about justice.” PAUL DHINGRA, WHO DISCOVERED HIS MOTHER’S BLOODIED BODY
after trial to the Whitby Mental Health Centre, was the only beneficiary named in the $50,000 insurance policy. But his son, Paul, administrator of his mother’s estate, challenged the insurance company’s decision to pay his father the death benefit and asked that it go to the estate. Lina Dhingra said yesterday her father would appeal the ruling. She said her father never wanted the policy money for himself, but wanted to split it between her and her brother Paul’s three children. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Dancer Broti Kar, 22, thanks Attorney General Chris Bentley, left, with a Bollywood dance at the South Asian Women’s Centre’s Lansdowne Avenue office yesterday after the province gave it a lifeline grant. COLIN MCCONNELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Immigrant agency thrown a lifeline
The South Asian Women’s Centre, a Toronto immigrant agency that lost its federal funding and was forced to cut services, was given a $150,000 grant by the province for a project aimed at combating domestic violence, forced marriages and human trafficking. The grant will help train front-line workers and develop information guides in Tamil, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Punjabi.
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