Laval father confesses in court to drowning his children in 2022: report
Posted February 3, 2026 1:27 pm.
A Laval father accused of killing his two children in their home in 2022 has reportedly confessed to drowning them.
At the start of his trial Tuesday, Kamaljit Arora admitted he “caused the deaths” of his 11-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, TVA Nouvelles is reporting.
The 49-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in their deaths. He’s also charged in the attempted murder of his other daughter and for allegedly trying to strangle his ex-wife.
According to the Crown prosecution, Arora’s ex-spouse arrived home on the afternoon of Oct. 17, 2022, to find him sweating and wet. When asked where their two younger children were, Arora allegedly told her they had been told to stay upstairs in their room as punishment.
When the couple’s eldest daughter arrived home, she went upstairs to fetch medication for her father, and found the inanimate bodies of her 13- and 11-year-old siblings. When the daughter came downstairs, “Mr. Arora was in the process of strangling her mother,” the summary of the prosecution’s case reads. The daughter intervened, biting her father to get him to stop, and then ran to a neighbour’s to call for help, the summary says.
An autopsy concluded the children died from drowning and that a toxicology report found several substances in Arora’s system.
The case is likely to hinge on Arora’s mental state at the time he allegedly killed his two children. His initial court appearances were delayed because he spent several weeks in hospital and unresponsive following his Oct. 17 arrest.
In November 2022, a judge found him fit to stand trial.
–With files from The Canadian Press
