Borsad, May 28 -- The father of 22-year-old Indian student Vidhi Megha, who was stabbed to death in Canada's Niagara region, has urged the government to repatriate her mortal remains to India for her final rites.

Vidhi Megha, a resident of Borsad in Gujarat, was killed on May 15 in St. Catharines in the Niagara region of Canada and was reportedly attacked with a knife in a suspected homicide incident.

"My daughter is 22 years old; the incident happened in St Catharines in Canada's Niagara region. She was attacked with a knife," her father, Kalpeshbhai Medha, said on Thursday.

"My request to the government is that we must perform my daughter's final rites right here in India; therefore, please provide us with the body as soon as possibl...