Overview
- Toronto police arrested 32‑year‑old Abdul Ghafoori at a Toronto airport on Friday and charged him with first‑degree murder in connection with Himanshi Khurana’s death.
- Khurna, 30, was reported missing on Dec. 19, 2025 and found dead inside a downtown Toronto residence the next morning, a death investigators classified as a homicide.
- Officers say the victim and the accused were in an intimate partner relationship and that the case has been treated as an act of intimate partner violence.
- Toronto’s Fugitive Squad and Homicide and Missing Persons Unit worked with national and international policing partners to locate and facilitate Ghafoori’s return, but police have not disclosed the foreign location involved.
- Police have not released details on motive, cause of death or the evidence underlying the charge and the accused was scheduled to appear at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre as the investigation continues while consular officials assist the family.