<p> Canadian police have arrested a man in a 25-year-old unsolved killing of an Indian schoolteacher who worked at a gas station at night "to make a little money."<br /><br /></p>.<p>Surinder Singh Parmar, who was a teacher in India and held a PhD in history, was found stabbed to death on November 19, 1990, inside a men's washroom of the Penny Gas Bar in Toronto.<br /><br />The suspect Rupert Richards, now 61, was arrested on Monday from his home in Toronto, police said yesterday.<br /><br />Richards was "quite surprised" to learn that he has been charged with first-degree murder in the 1990 killing, CBC news reported.<br /><br />Det-Sgt Stacy Gallant, in charge of the Toronto police force's cold-case unit, said innovations in DNA evidence and other investigative techniques helped crack the case.<br />"Items were re-examined," Gallant said. "Items that had been sitting on a shelf for years."<br /><br />Parmar, 38, worked nights at the gas station and had family in India, including a wife and two children aged six and 12.<br /><br />After the killing, the family immigrated to Canada. The family currently live in the Toronto area, the report said.<br /><br />Gallant said they were happy to hear of the arrest, but did not want to speak to the media.<br /><br />"To go 25 years without knowing who did this to their father was difficult to cope with," said Gallant.<br /><br />Parmar arrived in Canada in June 1990 and had planned to return home in January. He died of multiple stab wounds to the neck and abdomen.<br /><br />"He was trying to make a little money," Toronto police Det-Sgt Jim Crowley told The Canadian Press in 1990. "He wanted to see some friends on the West Coast before he went back to India."<br /><br />At the time of the incident, police told reporters that Parmar was likely killed during a robbery at the 24-hour gas station.</p>
<p> Canadian police have arrested a man in a 25-year-old unsolved killing of an Indian schoolteacher who worked at a gas station at night "to make a little money."<br /><br /></p>.<p>Surinder Singh Parmar, who was a teacher in India and held a PhD in history, was found stabbed to death on November 19, 1990, inside a men's washroom of the Penny Gas Bar in Toronto.<br /><br />The suspect Rupert Richards, now 61, was arrested on Monday from his home in Toronto, police said yesterday.<br /><br />Richards was "quite surprised" to learn that he has been charged with first-degree murder in the 1990 killing, CBC news reported.<br /><br />Det-Sgt Stacy Gallant, in charge of the Toronto police force's cold-case unit, said innovations in DNA evidence and other investigative techniques helped crack the case.<br />"Items were re-examined," Gallant said. "Items that had been sitting on a shelf for years."<br /><br />Parmar, 38, worked nights at the gas station and had family in India, including a wife and two children aged six and 12.<br /><br />After the killing, the family immigrated to Canada. The family currently live in the Toronto area, the report said.<br /><br />Gallant said they were happy to hear of the arrest, but did not want to speak to the media.<br /><br />"To go 25 years without knowing who did this to their father was difficult to cope with," said Gallant.<br /><br />Parmar arrived in Canada in June 1990 and had planned to return home in January. He died of multiple stab wounds to the neck and abdomen.<br /><br />"He was trying to make a little money," Toronto police Det-Sgt Jim Crowley told The Canadian Press in 1990. "He wanted to see some friends on the West Coast before he went back to India."<br /><br />At the time of the incident, police told reporters that Parmar was likely killed during a robbery at the 24-hour gas station.</p>