Extradition of Maple Ridge pair linked to ‘honour killing’ stopped: reports
Posted September 21, 2017 4:08 pm.
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MAPLE RIDGE (NEWS 1130) – The extradition of two people who are accused of masterminding a so-called honour killing 17 years ago of a Maple Ridge woman in India has apparently been stopped.
A media outlet in that country says the woman’s mother Malkit Kaur Sidhu and her uncle Surjit Singh Badesha will have their case reviewed after claims from their lawyer that new information has surfaced.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled in favour of the two being extradited on the understanding they’d be given a fair trial.
Jassi Sidhu was murdered in 2000 in India after marrying a man her family did not approve of. The 25-year-old secretly wed her husband, a rickshaw driver, against her family’s wishes. The two were attacked in India in June of 2000 by contract killer reportedly hired by Sidhu’s family.
Her throat was slit and he was beaten but survived his injuries.
The mother and uncle, accused of murder and conspiracy overseas, were arrested in March of 2012 while a total of seven men were arrested and convicted of Sidhu’s murder in India.
