Man who killed wife can claim death benefit, judge rules

TORONTO - A man judged to be insane when he battered his wife with a marble Hindu statue and repeatedly stabbed her can have her death benefit life insurance, an Ontario Court of Appeal judge ruled.

The key ingredient in Justice Marc Rosenberg’s decision, released Tuesday, is that Ved Parkash Dhingra was ruled “not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder” when he murdered Kamlesh Kumari Dhinga, 58, in 2006.

The couple separated in 1992 but he was occasionally living with her in the Richmond Hill bungalow she occupied several weeks before Paul Vikas Dhingra went to the house, found his mother’s body and his father injured in an apparent murder-suicide bid.

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