Friday, May 9, 2014

Jassi honour case : alleged killers to be extradited to India..


VANCOUVER — A mother and uncle accused of ordering the so-called honour killing of a young British Columbia woman have been ordered extradited to India by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
Jaswinder (Jassi) Sidhu was found stabbed to death in Punjab in June 2000 and her mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, are accused of murder and conspiracy in India.
The Crown alleged the pair orchestrated the murder because Sidhu had married a poor rickshaw driver in India, rather than the wealthy older man they preferred.
They fought extradition, arguing there wasn’t enough evidence to force them to face charges in India.
Twenty-five-year-old Sidhu secretly married against the wishes of her family and fled Canada for India to reunite with her husband. Mithu Sidhu survived the attack.
Four men have already been convicted of murder in India.

MITHU ELATED
Jupinderjit Singh
Jassi and her husband Sukhwinder Singh alias Mithu were attacked by a group of contract killers, allegedly hired by her mother Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Malkit’s brother Surjit Singh Badesha. Both Mithu and Badesha belonged to Kaunke Kalan village near Jagraon.
An elated Mithu, who is a living wreck since that day said he was living just on the hope of seeing the ‘killers’ of his wife Jassi punished, “It has been so many years since I have smiled. Daily, I dream of confronting Jassi’s mother. I wanted to ask Jassi's mother why she killed her own daughter. She could have killed me. I also want to ask her if chosing your own life partner warranted such a brutal punishment."
Mithu, who is currently unemployed and did not remarry despite several proposals, said he was a living corpse, " I am walking dead since the day they took my Jassi away from me. I am living only on the hope that she gets justice. I feel her soul is restless and wandering.”
“Today is a great day of my life. I salute the Candian court though I was fearing they will turn down the extradition. I wanted to depose in the court as I was the main victim and the witness,” he said in a choked voice.
Jaswinder (Jassi) Sidhu was found stabbed to death in Punjab in June 2000, and her mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, are charged with murder and conspiracy in India. It was alleged the two hired the contract killers including a Punjab police inspector. As per Indian police records Malkit Kaur had talked with Jassi over the phone when she was in the captivity of the killers just before she was brutally stabbed.

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