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A body found by RCMP on Monday night in a Surrey, B.C., home is that of the husband of a slain principal who had been questioned and released in her death.

Paul Cheema's body was discovered in his parents' home, Jas Cheema, his sister-in-law, said Tuesday morning.

However, Cpl. Dale Carr, a spokesman for RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation team, won't confirm the identity of the body.

"We haven't categorized the type of investigation as a murder or as a suicide, simply investigating the circumstance of a death," Carr said Tuesday morning.

"I'm hopeful that after the autopsy today we'll be able to put some sort of a label on it per se," he said.

Paul Cheema was questioned last month after his wife, Shemina Hirji, was killed in the couple's Burnaby townhome during a home invasion on July 5.

At the time of the home invasion, Cheema had been married to Hirji, a 41-year-old Surrey elementary school principal, for just five days.
  
Paul Cheema had told police three men entered the couple's townhouse and attacked them. He was released from hospital later the same day with minor injuries.

Court documents obtained by CBC News last month revealed that in 1995, Cheema, also known as Narinder Pal Cheema, was found guilty in Manitoba of forcible confinement, two counts of uttering threats to cause death or serious bodily harm, as well as one count of attempted kidnapping of Parmjit Singh, then his fiancée. He was sentenced to a total of 3½ years.