Toronto: A school in Canada has set up a scholarship fund in memory of an Indo-Canadian female teacher who was murdered last year. The annual scholarship will be provided to graduating students.

North Ridge elementary school in which Manjit Panghali taught announced Thursday that it has established the Manjit Panghali Memorial Fund.

The charred body of 30-year-old Panghali was found beside a road in Delta, a Vancouver suburb, last October, days after she had disappeared. She had gone to a prenatal yoga class Oct 18, but never returned.

The school and a Surrey Foundation have been working together to set up the scholarship fund in Manjit’s name. The fund will provide at least two $500 scholarships for students graduating every year.

The memorial fund was initiated by Carolyn Convey, a colleague who taught a Grade 1 class with Panghali, according to Desi Talk, an ethnic Indian newspaper.

Last month, a Canadian court charged Panghali’s husband Mukhtiar for the murder. (IANS)

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