A 68-year-old businessman, who hailed from Punjab’s Ludhiana district and was settled in Canada for years, was shot dead near his home in Abbotsford.
A 68-year-old businessman and philanthropist, who hailed from Punjab’s Ludhiana district and was settled in Canada for years, was shot dead near his home in Abbotsford in British Columbia province Monday.
Darshan Singh Sahsi ran a successful cloth and textile recycling business in Canada, and also had business interests in Punjab. Sahsi hailed from Rajgarh village near Doraha of Ludhiana district.
Reportedly, the Abbotsford Police mentioned that the incident is being investigated. Mentioning about the incident, the police officials stated that it approximately occurred at 9:22 am this morning.
On reaching the police discovered a 68 year old man who was struggling for his life. He was in life-threatening injuries, reported the police.
“The Abbotsford Police Department’s Major Crime Unit is transitioning the investigation to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT), which will be providing further updates as the investigation advances,” they said.
Sahsi ran a multinational cloth-recycling business, and was considered a respectable NRI business tycoon in both India and Canada.
In 2016, his nephew Jagjit Singh Sahsi, 36, died of alleged drug addiction. Sahsi had publicly acknowledged his nephew’s drug addiction during his bhog ceremony at the gurdwara in Rajgarh. “I don’t want to hide the truth. My nephew has died of drugs,” he said then.
He had moved to Canada in 1991.
In May, a Sikh businessman was shot dead outside his office in Canada’s Mississauga. Harjeet Singh Dhadda was an entrepreneur in the logistics and compliance industry.
