India, July 25 -- Police in Canada have charged a 22-year-old Indian man with second-degree murder in the death of his 23-year-old partner, Damanpreet Kaur, a native of Samrala in Punjab's Ludhiana district, after she died of injuries days after being found unresponsive at a home in Edmonton, the capital city of the province of Alberta.

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) said officers responded to a call around 6:44 pm on July 9 regarding "an unresponsive female with suspicious injuries" at a residence in the Silverberry neighbourhood in southeast Edmonton. "An adult male was taken into custody shortly thereafter," the police said.

Damanpreet Kaur was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where she died on July 12, police sai...