India, Jan. 14 -- The trial of three men - including one Indian national and two men of Indian origin - is underway in a Canadian court in connection with the 2022 murder of an elderly couple in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

The accused, identified as Gurkaran Singh, Abhijeet Singh and Khushveer Toor, were arrested in December 2022 and charged with two counts each of first-degree murder.

Outlining the prosecution's case in her opening statement, Crown prosecutor Dorothy Tsui said Arnold De Jong, 77, was found with duct tape wrapped around his nose and mouth and died of asphyxiation due to smothering, the Vancouver Sun reported.

His wife, Joanne De Jong, 76, was found surrounded by blood and died from a combination of sharp and blunt fo...