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The wife of a Dunedin man stabbed to death has revealed she rejected a proposal from the man accused of his murder.
Gurjit Singh was found dead on the lawn of his home in January last year after being stabbed more than 40 times.
A 35-year-old man, known only as Rajinder, is on trial for murder at the High Court.
His defence lawyer said Rajinder had no reason to kill Singh and there was no animosity between the two men.
Speaking through a translator, Singh's wife Kamaljeet Kaur told the court she rejected Rajinder's profile from a marriage bureau in India around 2022 because she was already in contact with Singh.
"I was not interested," she said.
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