there s no question here that money changed hands here? everyone where i live knows that i have been framed by use of money. even those in the indian legal system acknowledge that justice here can be corrupted by money. remember, it wouldn t be the first time that mithu was the target of false criminal accusations. soon after jassi s uncle surgit learned of jassi and mithu s secret marriage, he had mithu charged with kidnapping and rape based on a falsified document that he created with an effort to dismantle the marriage. jassi s murder case had dragged on for so long that indian authorities had ordered most of the defendants free on bail. and the investigation back in canada wasn t moving any quicker. did you think that sooner or later the police would knock on your door and ask you what you knew? yes, i did. that finally happened, after the airing of our first report,
to agree to divorce jassi. otherwise, they would kill my whole family. apparently furious that mithu had ignored his threats, jassi s uncle decided to do something about it. he came to court here in the punjab and he charged mithu with kidnapping jassi and forcing her to marry him. and remember that notarized statement that the uncle had jassi sign, the one in punjabi that she couldn t read? well, that s what he gave to the court as proof. it says in part that jassi didn t love mithu. that the wedding took place at gunpoint. and she wanted the marriage dissolved. it essentially accuses mithu of kidnapping jassi and consummating their marriage by rape. that s all the local police needed to issue a warrant for mithu s arrest. now he was not only an unwanted son-in-law, he was also a wanted man. translator: i went into hiding. and in my absence, they picked up my two friends, who were witnesses to my marriage.