Jassi Honour killing - Canadian court orders extradition of victim’s mother, uncle
Saturday, 10/05/2014
http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=102539&boxid=58822&uid=&dat=2014-05-10
Bathinda : Fourteen years after Jaswinder Sidhu alias Jassi was found stabbed to death in a village near Malerkotla, a court in Canada today ordered the extradition of her mother, a Canadian citizen, and her maternal uncle to India for facing a murder trial.
The verdict by a British Columbia court came late this evening was reported by Vancouverdesi.com.
Jassi and her husband Sukhwinder Singh alias Mithu were allegedly attacked by contract killers believed to have been hired by her mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and her brother Surjit Singh Badesha.
Mithu and Badesha belonged to Kaunke Kalan village near Jagraon.
An elated Mithu said: “I now see a ray of hope. I would often dream of confronting Jassi’s mother and asking her why she had killed her own daughter. She could have killed me."
Mithu, who is unemployed, has not remarried. “Ever since they took Jassi away from me, I have been living in the hope that she will get justice one day. Her soul will not rest in peace till that happens,” he said.
Saluting the Canadian court, he said he had feared that his extradition plea would be declined. “I wanted to depose in court as I was the main victim and the witness,” he said, his voice choking.
Jassi’s mother and uncle are charged with murder and conspiracy in India. According to the prosecution, they hired contract killers, one of them a police inspector. Police records show that Malkit Kaur had talked with Jassi over the phone while she was in the captivity of the killers, minutes before she was stabbed to death.
The prosecution had sought Malkiat Kaur and her brother’s extradition on the basis of police investigation that said Jassi had been murdered almost 14 years ago as she had married Mithu against the wishes of her family and that it was a case of honour killing.
