Jassi ‘killers’ to be sent to India for trial

Chandigarh, September 8 

Canada’s Supreme Court today ruled that Jassi Sidhu’s mother Malkit Sidhu and uncle Surjeet Badesha be extradited to India in connection with the ‘honour killing’ case. Website www.cbc.ca reported that the two should be extradited to face trial for the alleged murder. 

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The court had last year agreed to hear a review appeal on extraditing the duo to India, even as the Punjab Police had proposed to conduct their trial though video-conferencing from a Canadian jail. Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, alias Jassi, a resident of Maple Bridge, Canada, was murdered in Sangrur by contract killers “hired by her mother and uncle” in 2000. — TNS