Murder  of  an  Indian  girl  on  orders  of  her  mother  and uncle              

Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, also known as Jassi was a beautician in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. On a visit to the city of Jagraon, Ludhiana in the Punjab state of India in December 1994, Jassi met and fell in love with Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu (nicknamed Mithu), who was  a rickshaw driver. Jassi returned to Canada however she and Mithu kept in touch over the next four years.

In 1999, Jassi made another trip to India with her mother, Malkiat Kaur Sidhu and her uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha.  As far as Mithu was concerned, her trip was for the purpose of secretly arranging a marriage between her and Mithu.  They were subsequently married on March 15, 1999.

After Jassi and her mother and uncle returned to Canada, upon learning of the marriage between Jassi and Mithu, her mother and uncle told Jassi that they strongly disapproved of the marriage, supposedly because Mithu was of a lower status than they were.

Because of the disapproval of her mother and uncle, Jassi sent a letter to Ottawa on February 9, 2000, to the Immigration officials telling them that her uncle might try to give them false information about Mithu. In fact that is what her uncle actually did.  Meanwhile her mother and uncle attempted to persuade her to get a divorce by beating her and offering to buy her a car after she divorced her husband.                                                     

The next day, Jassi's uncle, had an affidavit drawn up that said that Mithu and his friends forced Jassi, at gunpoint, to marry Mithu. The uncle forged Jassi's signature that he obtained from her under the pretence of buying her a car to validate the complaint.

Meanwhile, Jassi was confined to her home with her mother and uncle. She was able to escape from the clutches of her mother and uncle with the help of the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). While she was being escorted out of the house, her mother and uncle screamed insults at her. 

When Jassi discovered that she had been betrayed, she managed to fax a letter to the Indian Officials stating that the accusations in the form sent earlier were false.

On April 13, 2000, Jassi flew to India and she convinced the Indian authorities that Mithu was innocent and subsequently, a judge granted bail to Mithu and he was released from jail six days later. 

On April 26, 2000, Jassi’s uncle began calling Darshan Singh, a wealthy local businessman in the Punjab. Darshan Singh's daughter later married Surjit Singh, Badesha’s son.

On June 7, 2000, Jassi’s mother learned that her daughter and Mithu were in hiding at the home of Mithu’s grandparents. She called them there and speaks to spo9ke to Jassi and Mithu. Jassi believed the call was a peace offering and old her her mother where they would be during the next few days.

The day after the phone call, they were attacked by a gang of men. Mithu was badly beaten and left for dead. He was found and taken to a hospital in Ludiahna. He told the police that his wife had been kidnapped.

That same day, Jassi was taken to a farmhouse outside Ludihana where she was told by the men that kidnapped her that her husband was dead.  One of the kidnappers, Ashwani Kumar, phoned Jassi’s mother and uncle who were still in in Maple by cell phone. He wanted to know what they were to do with Jessi. According to Indian police, Jassi’s mother ordered Ashwani Kumar to kill Jassi. He followed her instructions and while Jessi was being held down by the other kidnappers, she was briefly tortured and then Ashwani Kumar slit the screaming girl’s throat. Her body was later found dumped in an irrigation canal 45 km (28 miles) from Kaonke Khosa.

On the 18^th of June, the Indian police seized weapons, cars and mobile phones from the 11 men suspected of kidnapping and killing Jassi. On July 9, the Indian police arrested the 11 men connected with the murder of Jassi and they said that the murder was an honour killing.  Two days later, the police announced that they had issued arrest warrants for Jassi’s mother and uncle. Now one would think that soon after, those two evil bugs would be extradited to India to face the charges of murder. Well, it didn’t happen for quite a long time.

Meanwhile, in 2004, Mithu was arrested and charged with the rape of a servant of Darshan Singh, a serious charge for which bail is rarely granted. It was obviously a frame up. He was incarcerated in the Ludhiana Central Jail for four years. His release on April 29, 2008 came about because of the efforts of Harbinder Singh Sewak, who publishes the South Asian Post. He hired lawyers in India to prove Mithu’s innocence and they were successful.

On October 21, 2005, seven of the eleven men arrested were convicted in plotting and killing Jassi. They included Darshan Singh (the wealthy businessman) and former police officer Joginder Singh and Ashwani Kumar who slit Jassi’s throat. They were given life sentences for Jassi’s murder and the attempted murder of Mithu.

The extradition to India from Canada of Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha, (the two bugs who arranged for the murder of Jassi) was as to be expected, stonewalled by Canadian and British Columbia authorities.  For nine years, those two evil bugs remained free. However, on January 5, 2012, arrest warrants under the Canadian Extradition Act were issued for the mother and uncle by the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The two were arrested the following day. They were kept in custody until May 30, 2013 when the two bugs were extradited to India to face the charges of first degree murder. I have no doubt in my mind that those two bugs will be spending the rest of their lives in a filthy decrepit prison.

I will keep my readers up to date as I learn more about what is happening to those two bugs. Whatever I learn will be placed at the end of this article.