“Now, I can ask Jassi’s mother if our love was such a big crime?” : Mithu (husband of Jassi)

Key words: Jassi murder case; justice for jassi ; Mithu, Sukhwinder, Kaunke

 “Now, I can ask Jassi’s mother if our love was such a big crime?” : Mithu (husband of Jassi)

“I braved death and threats and fake police cases to see this day”

Jupinderjit Singh

 “I survived for this day only when the killers of my wife, Jassi, would be sent to India and face trial for her murder. I braved death and threats and fake police cases in 17 years of struggle for justice to see this day.”

Says Sukhwinder Singh alias Mithu reacting to the Canadian Supreme Court’s decision on Friday allowing extradition of Jassi’s mother Malkiat Kaur and maternal uncle Surjit Singh Badesha (Malkiat’s elder brother).

“Now, I can confront Malkiat Kaur face to face and ask her why she considered her daughter’s love for me such a big crime that she got her killed,” Mithu added, his voice choking.

After the murder on June 8, 2000 by 14 contract killers,  Punjab Police had charged both with conspiracy to murder Jaswinder Kaur alias Jassi for marrying Mithu against family wishes. Police charge sheet said both planned the conspiracy in Canada and got it executed in India.

Mithu drives a truck these days to earn a living and was on the road since early morning. “The whole purpose of my existence post Jassi’s murder is to see her mother and Uncle behind bars one day and pay for the crime,” he said.

“Jassi and I got married with honour. Her parents may have been mad at us if I had not married Jassi. We followed the sanctity of marriage. I am still her husband. I have spurned hundreds of marriage offers. I want to tell her mom my love was true and committed to Jassi in life and beyond,’ said Mithu, who did not budge despite false police cases against him and offers to crores of ruppes and land to withdraw his statement against Jassi’s mother and Uncle.

Mithu and Jassi’s story is a well known international honour killing case which has been subject of a movie, book and  documentary by the National Geogrpahic.

 Hailing the verdict, Mithu laments the Canadian government never allowed him to plead for the extradition in  their courts, “ I believe today that there is justice in Canada. The government had stone-walled my request to visit Canada  to pursue the case,” he said.

Sukhwinder Singh alias Mithu of Kaunke Khosa said he had weaved a life of love and happiness with Canada-born Indian girl Jaswinder Kaur Jassi in the late 1990s. But when they got married against the wishes of Jassi’s parents, the dream life could be lived for a few weeks only. Both were attacked by a group of contract killers allegedly hired by Jassi’s mother and an uncle. Jassi died. Mithu survived, but only to live a life full of sufferings.

Mihtu had recently moved the two-member Justice Mehtab Singh Commission of Inquiry into false cases registered by the Punjab Police in the last 10 years.  

The range of cases against him varies from rape, for which he spent three-and-a-half years in jail before his acquittal, to rioting, snatching and even drugs smuggling. He has been booked six times in different cases and has already been acquitted in four.

“The cops who arrested me were sympathetic, but they wanted me to forget all about Jassi and my fight for justice… I have even declined several marriage proposals coming my way. I can’t share my love for Jassi with anyone,” Mithu told The Tribune.

 “Every offer of a compromise I declined resulted in a new case against me,” he has claimed before the commission. His application has been registered and notices have been sent to the police.

“From an initial offer of Rs 10 lakh to the latest Rs 1.5 crore besides the ownership of 14 acres of land or a well-settled life abroad, the supporters of the accused have promised it all to me. But I can’t trade my love for all this. I just want Jassi’s mother and uncle to be punished for what they did to her and me,” said Mithu. His voice trembling in between as his torrid life flashes before his eyes. EOM

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.

hear me also : jassi's husband to canadian court : Jassi Murder case

From Main Tribune
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.

EOM

The bone-chilling end of Jassi.......

Satnam Waheguru were the last words that flashed across Jassi's terrified eyes before the sacred sword went to work.

Inscribed on the blade to denote the eternal truth of God's name in Sikhism, the long blade of the Kirpan put an end to a cultural misfit who dared to love, defied traditions and disgraced family honour.

The flashing steel cut with a fury, triggered by a vengeance that can only appear when one who is close strays and commits betrayal.

It was as if the curved sword was working with a force of its own, pushed by an unseen hand that was manipulating the sweat soaked killer.

The holy sword did its work well.

First it disfigured Jassi's beauty in an act of premeditated mutilation.

Moving with a frightening slowness, the blade cut the young woman's chin breaking the subcutaneous tissue and muscles, leaving behind an unspeakable horror.

If she were to survive this torture by some merciful intervention, Jassi would be marked forever by a four-inch scar that spread across her face.

But this sword once unsheathed seldom left survivors.

From the disfiguration, it moved quickly down to her breasts, which were considered defiled by the caressing hands of the one she loved.

There it cut horizontally moving inside the milky-white skin to leave a six-inch long message.

No children from her unsanctioned union will ever suckle from this bosom.

As Jassi's lungs filled with her bodily fluids, the sword, thirsting more, moved back up with ferocious speed for the final act.

Its point plunged two and half inches into Jassi's neck and then sawed with cruel deliberation across her long nape splitting the trachea and esophagus.The voice of defiance was no more.

The defilement was complete.

The disgrace was avenged.

Satiated, the sword hung exhausted from the killer's hand as Jassi's life ebbed away.

Her T-shirt and unbuttoned jeans soaked up the blood that poured out of a ravaged body.

What her clothes did not consume, pooled around the chair on which she was gagged and bound.



Nearby, lay a discarded photograph of Jassi, used by the assassins to identify their target.



Now it bore no resemblance to the beautiful innocence it once mirrored.

What blood stayed inside Jassi mingled with gastric fluids to flood the chest cavity and drown her heart, which had been promised in secret to the man she loved.



But Jassi kept her eyes open while her life closed, to say to the sword, her uncles, her assassins and her mother - you can kill me, but you will never kill my love.

When they found her 33 hours later, her eyes were still open.

(now e-book "justice for Jassi" in paperback and hard cover editions also http://www.amazon.com/Justice-for-Jassi-ebook/dp/B0066BJ91I)

how an online petition and the book on Jassi helped the Law

Honour killing petition puts pressure on RCMP
published by asingh on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 17:37

photo :Mithu looks at the house where his wife Jassi was killed.
By Mata Press Service

The international crusade – Justice for Jassi - which culminated in the recent arrests of a mother and her brother in Maple Ridge for an alleged honour killing in India, is putting pressure on the RCMP to lay charges on the duo for conspiracy to kill in Canada.
A petition on the website justiceforjassi.com has been flooded with thousands of comments from all over the world by people outraged at the slow pace of the investigative process.
Many are urging Canada to charge the suspects locally instead of merely extraditing them to face India’s notoriously corrupt judicial process.
The crusade on the website justiceforjassi.com is led by the publisher of the South Asian Post, Harbinder Singh Sewak and Vancouver Province deputy editor-in-chief Fabian Dawson, who has followed this tragic saga for over 11 years.
The duo together with Indian journalist Jupinderjit Singh has also authored the book Justice for Jassi, which was released last December, and had just worked on a CBC Fifth Estate documentary when the arrests were made.
Malkit Kaur Sidhu was arrested earlier this month on an extradition warrant related to the June 8, 2000 killing of her daughter Jaswinder “Jassi” Kaur Sidhu. The girl's uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, a millionaire blueberry farmer was also arrested on the same warrant.
At Press Time, Sidhu, 63, and Badesha, 67, were to appear in a Vancouver court to fix a date for a bail hearing.
Police in India allege that Jassi’s mother and uncle were the architects of the crime and have always maintained that the order to kill came from Canada.
Seven other individuals, allegedly hired by the uncle and mother here in Maple Ridge, have already been convicted in India for charges including murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in relation to the death of B.C. born Jassi Sidhu and the attempted murder of her husband, Sukhwinder ‘Mithu’ Sidhu of Punjab.
The family has denied any involvement in the case but has admitted that they opposed the union because the couple shared the same clan name – which indicated they were from a common lineage and violated the ancient belief called Gotra.
“It's an embarrassment that the mother and uncle have not been charged in Canada. My heart goes out to both Mithu and Jassi,” wrote Kamaljit Chohan on justiceforjassi.com.
“I'm really disappointed in the RCMP...anyone who plots a murder on Canadian soil regardless of where the murder takes place is to be charged in Canada” said Antonia Sc of York University
Sarah Penman wrote: “We, as Canadians, cannot stand back and let this crime, against another Canadian go unpunished.”
John Szogi, who grew up in Pitt Meadows and went to school with Jassi was outraged that the suspects have been allowed to walk free for so long.
“I feel ashamed that I call myself Canadian,” he wrote.
The RCMP has not publically answered why it took so long to bring the suspects to court nor why they have not been charged for conspiracy to kill in Canada.
An RCMP press release said “members of the “E” Division Major Crime Unit, along with other government officials, travelled on a number of occasions to India and identified a number of new investigative avenues that were instrumental in the extradition process.”
Experts familiar with such cases believe that even if the RCMP had recommended local murder conspiracy charges, it may have been rejected in the charge approval process by the Department of Justice or BC crown prosecutors.
“It looks like some people felt that the best chance of convictions in this case was extradition,” said a government lawyer.
As such, success in this case may take anywhere from five to 10 years as the suspects are expected to fight India’s extradition request all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Province deputy editor Fabian Dawson who examined Canada’s international extradition reputation in a series for his newspaper in 2007 said Canada's hesitancy in dispatching fugitives back to the countries where they are wanted is an increasingly sore point among foreign governments.
“In this case we are dealing with Canadians and the evidence needs to be tested locally before we can send them to India.”
The South Asian Post and its sister papers have also profiled several outstanding cases where India was seeking the extradition of people in Canada.
One of them is Subhash Agrawal of Ottawa who is wanted in India as a suspect in the 2003 murder of his sister, Canadian Dr. Asha Goel. (see “We want the truth, that’s all we want,” published on Tuesday 09/15/2009)
Another involves Harnek Singh Grewal, who leads the powerful Sikh sect called Nanaksar and is the head of a B.C. temple. He is wanted for allegedly inciting a deadly riot in Siahar, India. (see Fugitive surrenders in war of two holy men published by Tuesday 01/13/2009)
In another case, Canada extradited Malkiat Singh from British Columbia back to India after 32 years. (see Flight of the fugitive farmer published Thursday 05/03/2007)
Complicating matters is a recent Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal decision that overturned all 17 convictions for indecent assault and gross indecency against Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh who had fled to India.
The court tossed the charges because of the delay in bringing him to trial, in large part because it took more than a decade to extradite MacIntosh from India.
source :http://www.southasianpost.com/article/honour-killing-petition-puts-pressure-rcmp

Justice for Jassi : Author Speak

Justice for Jassi
e-book

Jupinderjit Singh
(co-Author)

When I first met Sukhwinder Singh 'Mithu', some 12 years ago, at his two room tenement sans a boundary wall, with un-plastered walls, with a roof without any safety projection to keep harsh rain showers at bay , and listened to his story of love with Jassi and her tragic murder, I was immediately filled with anger for the culprits.

I also remember the ache in my heart at the poor sight of the still stout and muscular young man, who, within a short time had experienced extreme heaven in the arms of his beloved and then hell at her separation. He was nothing but a living corpse. I felt lot of pity for him and I think I cried later.

The tears did not cool down my anger for the culprits. I wanted to help Mithu. Strangely, I felt Jassi egging me on. I wanted to confront her mother Malkiat Kaur on how can a mother hand over her young daughter to the criminals ( as claimed by cops). I also wanted to take on Jassi's maternal uncle Surjit Singh Badesha for his alleged role in Jassi's murder and the failed attempt to kill Mithu.

I wanted to ask sub-inspector Joginder Singh, who is convicted for abetting the inhuman crime and proximity to the 12 contract killers, only three of who are behind the bars now.

I wanted to ask Joginder about his duty as a policeman and the oath he took to protect the law of the land and prevent injustice as was done to Mithu and Jassi. I wanted to confront him on how as a Sikh could he be part of such a heinous crime and forget the Sikh Guru's teaching of helping the week and meek and standing up against the evil.

I wanted to ask the contract killers on what all they bought for the money they took from Jassi's mother. Though my experience as a crime reporter makes me understand that contract or hired killers were just faceless and nameless persons, who could have killed anyone for money. But didn' t their heart bleed for a single moment when Jassi was crying, beckoning God and humanity , and compassion in them when they were killing and ravaging her. Or when they left Mithu for dead in the fields and snatched his Jassi forever from him, didn't they think even for a micro-second about the sin they were committing. Just few hundreds thousands of currency notes were enough to make them beasts.

But above all, I wanted to ask the Canada based father and brother of for their mute acceptance of all that was happening around them. They were perhaps the only persons who could have intervened to stop Jassi’s mother in time or alert Jassi and Mithu When would they break their silence? They are still silent.

I was no Hercules to help Mithu. But I had the power of the Pen and the influence of a Journalist. And that is exactly what I could do and I did. Doors started opening. The Punjab police which thought Mithu was alone realised there was someone backing him. And not just I, many journalists in Punjab and many from Delhi helped him. We could not prevent the inevitable. Mithu was finally framed in a false case of rape and jailed. Three years he spent in hell despite being an innocent man and a more innocent lover. He paid price for loving Jassi of higher socio-economic strata. And then the news reports seemed too less a platform to help him. At that moment I sat down writing a book about him. I used to meet him in the jail and saw his barrack. The book "justice for Jassi" began with Mithu telling his story and Jassi's story through him.

As providence had it or as I firmly believe and say, Jassi's soul had it, a journalist sitting seven seas away in Vancouver , Canada, was suffering the same pangs of injustice to Jassi and Mithu. Fabian Dawson, a well known name in journalism owing to his world wide reports on anything that mattered had been to Punjab several times reporting and investigating Jassi's murder and Mithu' s plight. He too visited him in the central jail Ludhiana. But unknown to me he too was doing a book on the love story that had gone awfully wrong.

We both happened to travel by chance together in Gujarat when we shared our feelings for the tragic love story. And the book started taking shape. We both agreed it was one of the most poignant love story of modern times. It was not just another case in our journalisitic life. It was a story which moved us from inside. It is a story which woke us up at the dead of night and we could hear the cries of help of Jassi.

Fabian knew so much that happened in Canada with Jassi before and after her murder. And I knew stuff happening in Punjab. Then, we needed lot of financial support and expertise of someone who bridged the gap between India and Canada , who understood the diverse cultures. This is where Harbinder Singh Sewak, chipped in. His knowledge of publishing, business skills and of Punjab and Sikh ethos ironed out many problems of understanding the complex issue. The three musketeers sat down to work with just one focus: to do our bit for far Jassi and to save Mithu from further troubles, at least , not of his own making.

Jassi lived chasing a dream and she died doing so. She was a free bird. Her wings could not be cut. She had to be killed only to be stopped. She and Mithu were born miles away and nurtured in complete contrasting conditions. Mithu lived in poverty just next to the big house of Badesha's, where Jaassi's mother had lived before she was married off to Canada. And once there, she was a ticket to many of her relatives to the " land of opportunities" that Canada was perceived as in Punjab. Mithu grew up in the shadow of Badesha''s property and influence in the village. Jassi's mother and relatives may not have considered Mihtu and his family existed till Jassi came from miles of away and he along with Mithu scales those high walls of caste, status to try to live a life of their own.

But while they narrowed the gap of continents between them, they could not win over the narrow hearts and eventually paid for it dearly. I had heard or read about the great love stories of Romeo and Juliet, Layla and majnu , sohni and mahiwal but nothing matches a love story that pans out in front of you. Their hearts beat for each other at the first sight. They managed to communicate in an age where there was no Internet or mobile phones in mithu's India and not even a land line phone. He used to travel in rain or in foggy winter at the dead of night to receive Jassi's call at the public phone booth in Jagraon town, nearly 25 Kms away from his village house. They shared their happenings in over hundreds of love letters they exchanged. While translating those letters in to English for the book and the Canadian audience, I fought my tears at the sheer innocence of Jassi. I felt her drawing those roses on the love letters and felt the soft petals she drew. She did make hearts pierced by the Cupid's arrow and some blood drops dripping down those. She may have never dreamt that one day her heart would bleed to death and there would be no one to come to her aid.

She would have never thought that her Mithu would be left alone to battle out the world and live a lonely, desolate life.

The book, I hope would prevent further honour killings. On an average one thousand such killings take place in India, the land which taught world how to love, which accepted all coming to the holy land and embraced all religion, caste and race.

EOM

Jupinderjit Singh
Bureau Chief
Jammu

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Punjabi Tribune page one story on "justiceforjassi" book : co-authors Jupinderjit singh, Fabian Dawson and Harbinder Singh Sewak,

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ਜੱਸੀ ਦੇ ਪਤੀ ਸੁਖਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਿੱਠੂ ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਭਾੜੇ ਦੇ ਕਾਤਲ ਮਰਿਆ ਸਮਝ ਕੇ ਛੱਡ ਗਏ ਸਨ, ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਕੁਝ ਹੱਦ ਤਕ ਇਨਸਾਫ ਮਿਲਣ ਦੀ ਆਸ ਬੱਝੀ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਕਤਲ ਕਾਂਡ ਵਿਚ ਜ਼ਮਾਨਤ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਜੱਸੀ ਦਾ ਇਕ ਹੋਰ ਮਾਮਾ ਤੇ ਸਹਿ ਦੋਸ਼ੀ ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਫਰਾਰ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ ਸੀ ਤੇ ਉਹ ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਵਿਚ ਕਿਧਰੇ ਲੁਕਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ।
ਇਧਰ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਨੇ ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੇ ‘ਗਾਇਬ’ ਹੋਣ ਦੇ ਸੱਚ ਦੀ ਜਾਂਚ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਹੈ। ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਦੀ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਉਹ ਮਲਕੀਤ ਕੌਰ ਤੇ ਗੁਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਤੋਂ ਪੁੱਛ-ਪੜਤਾਲ ਕਰ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ ਤੇ ਦੋਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਛੇਤੀ ਹੀ ਭਾਰਤ ਭੇਜ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ। ਇਸ ਕਤਲ ਕਾਂਡ ਵਿਚ ਦਸ ਕਾਤਲਾਂ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਸਿਰਫ ਤਿੰਨ ਸਬ ਇੰਸਪੈਕਟਰ ਜੋਗਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ, ਅਨਿਲ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਤੇ ਅਸ਼ਵਨੀ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਹੀ ਜੇਲ੍ਹ ਵਿਚ ਹਨ।
ਜੱਸੀ ਦੇ ਪਤੀ ਮਿੱਠੂ ਮੁਤਾਬਕ, ‘‘ਮੇਰੇ ਮਨ ਨੂੰ ਅੱਜ ਇਹ ਖ਼ਬਰ ਸੁਣ ਕੇ ਕੁਝ ਠੰਢ ਪਈ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਮੇਰੀ ਜੀਵਨ ਸਾਥਣ ਦੇ ਕਾਤਲਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਫੜ ਲਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਮੈਂ ਉਸ ਦਿਨ ਦੀ ਉਡੀਕ ਕਰ ਰਿਹਾ ਹਾਂ ਜਦੋਂ ਜੱਸੀ ਦੀ ਮਾਂ ਤੇ ਮਾਮੇ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਰਤ ਲਿਆਂਦਾ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ ਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਜ਼ਾ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਜਾਵੇਗੀ। ਪਤਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਮੈਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਦੇਖ ਸਕਾਂਗਾ ਜਾਂ ਨਹੀਂ। ਮੇਰੀ ਹਮੇਸ਼ਾ ਇਹੀ ਇੱਛਾ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਜੱਸੀ ਨੂੰ ਕਤਲ ਕਰਾਉਣ ਦਾ ਫਰਮਾਨ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਅਜਿਹੀ ਸਜ਼ਾ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਜਾਵੇ ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਦੁਨੀਆਂ ਦੇਖੇ। ਜੱਸੀ ਮੇਰੀ ਦੁਨੀਆਂ ਸੀ ਤੇ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਘਰਦਿਆਂ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਉਜਾੜ ਦਿੱਤਾ। ਹੁਣ ਮੈਂ ਸਿਰਫ ਜੱਸੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਯਾਦਾਂ ਸਹਾਰੇ ਜੀਅ ਰਿਹਾ ਹਾਂ।’’
ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਨੇ ਜੱਸੀ ਦੀ ਮਾਂ ਤੇ ਮਾਮੇ ਨੂੰ ਗ੍ਰਿਫਤਾਰ ਕਰਨ ਮਗਰੋਂ ਜਾਰੀ ਕੀਤੇ ਬਿਆਨ ’ਚ ਕਿਹਾ, ‘‘ਭਾਰਤੀ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਕੀਤੀ ਜਾਂਚ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਆਇਆ ਸੀ ਕਿ ਜੱਸੀ ਸਿੱਧੂ ਦੇ ਕਤਲ ਪਿੱਛੇ ਉਸ ਦਾ ਪਰਿਵਾਰ ਹੈ। ਭਾਰਤ ਤੋਂ ਬੇਨਤੀ ਆਉਣ ਮਗਰੋਂ ਅਸੀਂ ਇੱਥੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਜਾਂਚ ਕੀਤੀ। 5 ਜਨਵਰੀ, 2012 ਨੂੰ ਬ੍ਰਿਟਿਸ਼ ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ ਦੀ ਸੁਪਰੀਮ ਕੋਰਟ ਨੇ ਹਵਾਲਗੀ ਕਾਨੂੰਨ ਤਹਿਤ ਜੱਸੀ ਸਿੱਧੂ ਦੀ 63 ਸਾਲਾ ਮਾਂ ਮਲਕੀਤ ਕੌਰ ਸਿੱਧੂ ਤੇ 67 ਸਾਲਾ ਮਾਮੇ ਸੁਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਦੇਸ਼ਾ ਦੇ ਗ੍ਰਿਫਤਾਰੀ ਵਾਰੰਟ ਕੱਢੇ। ਦੋਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਬੀਤੇ ਦਿਨ ਗ੍ਰਿਫਤਾਰ ਕਰ ਲਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਤੇ ਉਹ ਇਸ ਵੇਲੇ ਸਾਡੀ ਹਿਰਾਸਤ ਵਿਚ ਹਨ। ਅਸੀਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਪੁੱਛ-ਪੜਤਾਲ ਕਰ ਰਹੇ ਹਾਂ।’’ ਵਰਨਣਯੋਗ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੋਵਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਗ੍ਰਿਫਤਾਰ ਕਰਾਉਣ ਵਿਚ ਪੁਸਤਕ ‘ਜਸਟਿਸ ਫਾਰ ਜੱਸੀ’ ਦੀ ਵੀ ਅਹਿਮ ਭੂਮਿਕਾ ਹੈ, ਜਿਹੜੀ ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਦੇ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰਾਂ ਫੈਬੀਅਨ ਡਾਓਸਨ ਤੇ ਹਰਬਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੇਵਕ ਤੇ ਟ੍ਰਿਬਿਊਨ ਦੇ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰ ਜੁਪਿੰਦਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੇ ਲਿਖੀ ਹੈ। ਇਹ ਪੁਸਤਕ ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਵਿਚ ਈ-ਬੁੱਕ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿਚ ਹਫਤਾ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਹੀ ਰਿਲੀਜ਼ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਸੀ। ਇਸ ਪੁਸਤਕ ਦੇ ਆਧਾਰ ’ਤੇ ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ਦੇ ਮਸ਼ਹੂਰ ਟੀ.ਵੀ. ਚੈਨਲ ਸੀ.ਬੀ.ਸੀ. ਨੇ ਅੱਧੇ ਘੰਟੇ ਦਾ ਸ਼ੋਅ ਵੀ ਦਿਖਾਇਆ, ਜਿਸ ਵਿਚ ਦਿਖਾਇਆ ਗਿਆ ਕਿ ਜਸਵਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ ਜੱਸੀ ਤੇ ਮਿੱਠੂ ਨਾਲ ਕੀ ਕੀ ਹੋਇਆ।