Canberra: Australian police on Thursday provided a one-million Australian greenback ($633,000) bounty that results in the situation of an Indian nationwide suspected of killing a lady 4 years in the past earlier than returning to her homeland on a tropical seashore.

Detective Inspector Sonia Smith stated Queensland state cops, who converse Hindi and Punjabi, are ready to be contacted on the Cairns workplace from India through WhatsApp or on-line about 38-year-old Rajwinder Singh’s whereabouts.

Singh was a nurse working in Enisfel, south of Cairns, when the physique of 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley was found on Monday, October 22, 2018 at Wangatti Beach.

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She had gone to the north seashore of Cairns to stroll her canine the day earlier than. According to police, the day Cordingley’s physique was discovered, Singh took a flight from Cairns to Sydney after which returned to India the following day.

The prize is the biggest in Queensland historical past, and is uncommon in that it doesn’t search a clue that results in a profitable prosecution. Instead, cash is obtainable in change for data that solely results in the situation and arrest of a suspect.

Police Minister Mark Ryan accredited the bounty and expressed confidence that Singh may very well be traced.

“We know that people know who this person is and where they are, and we are telling those people to do the right thing,” Ryan stated.

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“There are now a million reasons for a billion eyes around the world to help us deliver justice for Toyah,” he continued.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Tracy Lindford stated detectives imagine Singh continues to be in India. He requested witnesses from India’s 1.4 billion individuals to return ahead and “give some relief to the family that misses Toya.”

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Smith stated three Queensland detectives are already in India and dealing with Indian authorities to research.