effectively cut off from the rest of the world. while her mother and uncle decided what they would do next. and what did they want her to do? they offered her money. they just said, divorce him, leave him, just forget about him. but jassi refused to give in. though she knew how strongly her family felt, somehow she convinced herself her marriage to mithu could still have a happy ending if only she could find a way to get him to canada. they were going to live happily ever after? they were just going to live happily ever after and they would be in canada and everything would be fine. yes, jassi knew her family would disown her. but in time, they would come to see the light and eventually accept the two of them. so, could love really conquer all? it might have seemed like a naive notion at the time. but in fact, jassi s uncle did seem to undergo a dramatic change of heart. according to her friends, he indicated to jassi that he intended to help mithu emigrate to canada.
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murdered, wherever the killing takes place, is viewed as the same as committing the murder. which is why inspector singh expected that jassi s uncle and her mother would soon be arrested by the royal canadian mounted police. they didn t even they didn t care. in fact, after jassi was killed, some of her friends told us they went to the police to tell them about threats made by jassi s uncle and mother. they insist the royal canadian mounted police asked only a few, general questions. i m thinking they re going to question me and maybe sit down with me and find out my details. nothing. not even a i was in and out of there in two minutes. it seems, despite that evidence in india pointing to a conspiracy to commit murder, back in canada, the call for justice was going unanswered. in 2002, the spokesman for the rcmp in vancouver would not discuss the indian evidence. we would never confirm nor deny any investigations that we
and i was certain right then that i wouldn t be able to live without her. for mithu, just 18 at the time, the dream of marriage to 19-year-old jassi, and a life together in north america, would have been like winning the lottery. in their hearts, it may have been a match made in heaven. but in the minds of jassi s family, it was a union that would defy everything they believed in. translator: i had no idea that her family would be so opposed to our being together. i had absolutely no idea that all this would happen to us. in a traditional sikh family, that opposition was completely understandable. jassi was well-educated, from an affluent home in canada. mithu made a meager living as a rickshaw driver in india. he was not someone her mother, uncle, had even met, let alone approved of? if he had a good job, the parents would look at it and say, okay. she s in love with somebody, who
how do you answer that? despite repeated requests for an interview, neither jassi s mother nor her uncle would comment about the circumstances of her death. from the perspective of inspector singh, there was ample proof against them. in particular, the numerous confessions obtained by indian police. translator: to my mind, this is at least a whole lot of evidence that no police or no authority anywhere in the world can really deny or dismiss as false or questionable. but that s exactly what canadian authorities were doing. questioning those confessions because of how indian police may have elicited them. there would have to be a complete outline of how such confessions were obtained. under what conditions. et cetera. they may not meet the test of canadian jurisprudence. it s no secret that police interrogations in india often involve the use of physical force. in fact, it s so prevalent that confessions obtained during police questioning are
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