Jassi murder case : hear me also : jassi's husband to canandian court
Jupinderjit Singh/ TNS
Bathinda, September 27
"Abscence of the main conspirators in the honour killing case of my wife- Jassi - at the crime scene should not help them in escaping punishment."
A worried Sukhwinder Singh Mithu, tragic protagnist of the Jassi murder case said this in response to proceedings in a Canadian court which reportedly is verifying from Indian police officials if Jassi's mother Malkiat Kaur and Uncle Surjit Singh Badesha were present at site of murder of Jassi on June 8, 2000 near Malerkotla.
Mithu has requested the Court to allow him to depose before it for revealing the detailed phone calls his wife and he received before her murder.
" They gave the money to the contract killers, who had no other reason to kill jassi and left me persumed dead on that fateful evening," he said.
Surprised that the Canadian court has not called him as a witness so far, Mithu said it was in police records that Jassi's mother talked to Jassi over the phone of one of the contract killers.
" When she was in the captivity of killers, Malkiat Kaur called her up to inform her about my death (I was left persumed dead in the fields earlier) and asked her to return to Canada. This is in the police records. "
Mithu, who did not remarry and frequently changes his residence fearing attack on his life, said he was shocked that Canadian court or the Police there was discussing 13 years after the crime whether the two main conspirators were present or not and the bearing it has on the case."
" I am waiting for the day when Jassi's mother and Uncle are extradited to India to face trial here. I now wonder if it will happen in my life time," he said breaking down.
He said he had tried to go to Canada for joining the court proceedings but cannot get through.
" A false impression is made that my motive was to migrate to Canada all the while I was with Jassi and later also. I have got many marriage proposals from Canada after Jassi's murder. I could have easily achieved the alleged aim. I am wedded to Jassi, even so many years after her death," said an emotional Mithu.
Though Indian government moved the extradition of the two - Malkiat Kaur and Surjit Badesha- in 2005, the Canadian government began hearing the case in late 2011 only.
As per the extradition papers moved by the Indian Government, Jassi, a starry-eyed Canandian born was killed by a group of contract killers at the behest her mother and Uncle in June 2008 for allegedly marrying a youth of Kaunke Kalan, the native village of Jassi's mother.
The youth was a kabaddi player at that time. His humble house was situated behind the palatial house of jassi mother Malkiat Kaur and her brother Surjit Badesha. Besides the tradition of discouraging marriage between families of the same village in Punjab, there were socio-economic differences between the couple.
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