Chandigarh,
\n\u201cI will ask Jassi\u2019s mother: Was our love a crime that she got her killed?\u201d says Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu (38) alias Mithu, reacting to the Canadian Supreme Court\u2019s decision to allow the extradition of Jassi\u2019s mother Malkiat Kaur Sidhu and maternal uncle Surjit Singh Badesha.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally, my wife\u2019s killers will face trial for murder. My sole wish is to see them behind bars,\u201d he said today.<\/p>\n
Canada-born Jaswinder Kaur Jassi had fallen in love with Mithu of Kaunke Khosa village (Jagraon) during a visit to Punjab in 1994. Kaunke Khosa is also her mother and uncle\u2019s native village. Mithu was then a kabaddi player who plied an autorickshaw. Jassi\u2019s affluent family opposed the match as the youth had a poor socio-economic background. Later, the lovers got married against the wishes of her parents. On June 8, 2000, the couple was attacked by contract killers allegedly hired by Malkiat and Surjit. Jassi died, while Mithu survived. After an investigation, the Punjab Police charged Jassi\u2019s Canada-based mother and uncle with conspiracy to murder her.<\/p>\n
Mithu, now a truck driver, said: \u201cI\u2019m still her husband. I have rejected hundreds of marriage offers. I can\u2019t share my love for Jassi with anyone. I want to tell her mother that my love is true and eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hailing the extradition order, Mithu said the Canadian Government had never allowed him to plead in their courts. \u201cTheir government had stonewalled my request to pursue the case, but I believe there is justice in Canada today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mithu had recently moved the Justice Mehtab Singh Commission, which is probing \u201cfalse\u201d cases registered by the Punjab Police in the past 10 years. The cases slapped on him ranged from rape, for which he spent three-and-a-half years in jail before acquittal, to rioting, snatching and drug smuggling. He was booked in six cases, of which he has been acquitted in four.<\/p>\n
He refused to budge despite these cases and the offers of crores of rupees and land to withdraw his statement against the accused duo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cops who arrested me didn\u2019t ill-treat me, but they told me to forget about Jassi,\u201d Mithu said. \u201cWhenever I refused an offer for a compromise, another case was slapped on me,\u201d he has claimed before the commission. On the basis of his application, notices have been sent to the police.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the initial offer of Rs 10 lakh to the latest (Rs 1.5 crore), besides the ownership of 14 acres or a well-settled life abroad, supporters of the accused have promised it all to me. But I can\u2019t trade my love for all this. I just want Jassi\u2019s mother and uncle to be punished for what they did to her and me,\u201d said Mithu, his voice trembling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chandigarh, \u201cI will ask Jassi\u2019s mother: Was our love a crime that she got her killed?\u201d says Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu (38) alias Mithu, reacting to the Canadian Supreme Court\u2019s decision to allow the extradition of Jassi\u2019s mother Malkiat Kaur Sidhu and maternal uncle Surjit Singh Badesha. \u201cFinally, my wife\u2019s killers will face trial for murder. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}