Jassi Sidhu, who was from Maple Ridge, had secretly married Sukhwinder Singh Mithu, a poor rickshaw driver, a year earlier against her mother’s wishes, Indian police have said
“Don’t hurt my Mithu. Don’t hit him,” he recalls Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu uttering.
A lawyer for the mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, said he is confident his clients will be found not guilty and allowed to return to Canada.Mithu said he is relieved that they will at last face trial, but the past two decades have been hard on him. For the next few weeks he remained unconscious in hospital. It would be nearly a month before he could see again.
Over the next five years, they spoke on the phone between Canada and India, and exchanged more than 200 letters. An Indian court document says when she learned about the letter in early 2000, Sidhu went back to India to give a statement to the police that she loved Mithu and married him “out of her free will” and that the marriage was “not to the liking of her parents and maternal uncle.”
Sandeep Garg, the senior superintendent of police in the Sangrur district, said officers are finalizing their case and it will soon be presented to a court.“It took a very long time to get a hearing,” he said.
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