I fell in love with a rapper I met on TikTok, but when I rejected his proposal he killed my father – now I’m scared he’ll come for me and my kids
When Kirandeep Saggar first met Ranjit Bath she was smitten.
The mother-of-two had recently separated from her husband when she connected with the Canadian-Punjabi rap star on TikTok in June 2023.
They quickly struck up a rapport and, after a year of chatting online, he showed up at her home, in Sydney, Australia and the pair fell in love.
But after just a couple of months, the relationship turned sour. Ranjit became ‘obsessed’ with Kirandeep who, not yet divorced, said she didn’t want to marry him.
Rather than deter Ranjit, this led to even more obsessive behaviour on his part including threats to her family. Kirandeep eventually lodged a complaint to Australian police and Ranjit was deported.
However, soon after, Kirandeep’s father Ravinderpal Singh, 78, was murdered in Punajb, India, with his body dumped in a bush.
Ranjit is alleged to have text Kirandeep, apologising for killing her father, before berating her with daily texts threatening to kill her too.
Four months on, police in the country are still searching for Ranjit. Kirandeep says she lives in fear of him killing her, or another family member.
‘He is not human, he is a monster. I just sit on the sofa all night looking at the door because I don’t want anything to happen to my kids,’ she said.
Kirandeep Saggar, from Western Sydney, revealed the nightmare when her former boyfriend murdered her father and now she fears he is coming for her
Speaking to Australia’s 7NEWS Spotlight Kirandeep revealed she split from her husband in February 2023, but the pair remained living together in the same home.
She revealed around this time, Ranjit, who was living in Canada, messaged her on TikTok and they started speaking frequently.
The mother revealed the rapper became more flirtatious when they started talking on the phone.
As the relationship progressed Kirandeep wanted her new boyfriend to meet her 78-year-old semi-retired father Ravinda Paul.
Her father travelled from his hometown in India’s Northern Punjab region and visited friends in Vancouver in Canada.
While he was there Kirandeep suggested he should meet Ranjit to get his blessing.
She said: ‘This meeting is so important for him to impress my dad because he knows whatever my dad will say I will go for that.’
Speaking to 7NEWS Spotlight Kirandeep revealed that she is now at the centre of a chilling cross-border murder case as the horror escalated in August 2024 when Ranjit, allegedly murdered Kirandeep’s father, Ravinderpal Singh,(pictured) in Punjab, India
In March 2024, Ranjit flew from Canada to Australia and showed up unannounced on her doorstep, the pair spent weeks together.
Kirandeep tried to take things slow as she didn’t want to rush into another marriage straight after ending her previous relationship, however she claimed Ranjit had other plans and tried to pressure her into signing his Visa to stay in Australia.
Ranjit allegedly pressured her to divorce her husband and he demanded that she leave the house they shared and stay somewhere else.
She said: ‘I said I can’t do that, I have kids, I can’t just leave my kids home and I can come and stay with you, it’s not possible.
‘I tried to explain everything nicely but he don’t want to understand, so the pressure was too much.’
Two months after arriving in Australia, Ranjit started sending Kirandeep’s former husband death threats.
Seeking protection, Kirandeep reported him to Australian authorities, leading to his deportation in June 2024.
She said: ‘Even if I block his number he sent me messages from like 50 new numbers from Canada. Like every day it’s new numbers, I have everything in my phone, he keeps on sending me videos crying.’
Kirandeep reported the harassment to the Australian police but they said there was nothing they could do because he wasn’t in the country.
A subsequent attempt to re-enter Australia two months later saw him swiftly deported again and barred from the country for three years.
In an attempt to get Kirandeep back for ignoring him and ending their relationship he threatened to do ‘something which will make her cry for her whole life’.
She said: ‘He said I know how much you love your daughter and if you don’t talk to me I will come and I will kill her slowly in front of your eyes.
‘I would sit on the sofa all night and just look at the door, because I didn’t want anything to happen to my kids.
‘I always he feel, he won’t come back but he will send someone, that’s always in my mind, I can’t cope because of all these messages I feel scared, I worried what if I sleep for one second something will happen.’
On August 2, this year Kirandeep received a strange text message from her father, she tried to call him repeatedly throughout the day but he didn’t answer.
She called her brother, who lived near her father in Punjab, and asked him to search for their father.
After hours of searching and finding his father’s car abandoned at the side of the road Vikram was told by the local mortuary that a body had been found, it was their father.
Ravinderpal was reportedly strangled, his body left on the side of the road.
Kirandeep said: ‘That will always stay in my mind, I can never bring my dad back.’
Ravinderpal was reportedly lured to the town by Ranjit under the pretext of buying life insurance from him, then Ranjit and he and his nephew Baljinder Singh somehow convinced Ravinderpal to get into their car.
As his nephew drove the car, Ranjit got into the back seat, sitting behind Ravinderpal, who was in the passenger seat, he took out a rope and wrapped it around the 78-year-old’s neck and strangled him.
Kirandeep said: ‘Then they threw him in the bushes, that what I heard from the police and from his nephew.’
Ranjit coldly informed Kirandeep of her father’s death through a WhatsApp message, even disclosing where the body could be found.
While Baljinder Singh has been arrested and the vehicle used in the crime seized, Ranjit remains a fugitive.
Authorities in India have intensified efforts to capture him, but his evasion has exposed glaring shortcomings in global police cooperation.
CMD. Gurvinder Singh, from the Dhaka police, spoke to 7News saying: ‘We are trying to find out how he did escape and who were involved.’
However the family are deeply suspicious about how Ranjit escaped, many believe he bribed his way to freedom.
Punjabi Journalist living in Canada Gurpreet Sahot said: ‘It’s not about solving the murder, it’s about making money out of this. What will happen is they will take money off Ranjit and then present the case very weakly in front of a judge. It happens like this, often.’
However Gurvinder Singh from Dhaka police denied the allegations saying: ‘It is nothing like that.. nor has anyone sent a formal complaint to us regarding this.’
Two weeks after the murder Ranjit flew to Canada were he still remains a free man.
Kirandeep continues to endure daily threats from Ranjit, who allegedly vows to kill her and her family.
She said: ‘He sent me a text message saying if he can kill ne person from my family he can kill my whole family.’
Former West Vancouver Police Chief Kash Heed has criticised the lack of action from both Indian and Canadian law enforcement, warning that this inaction places Kirandeep’s life in grave danger.
Despite providing evidence of Ranjit’s criminal acts, she feels abandoned by the system.
