Vancouver: The mother and uncle of a young Canadian woman who was the victim of an alleged “honour killing” have been ordered extradited to India. Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha stand accused of killing Jaswinder Sidhu who was stabbed to death in Punjab in June 2000. The prosecution alleges the pair orchestrated the murder because Sidhu married a poor rickshaw driver in India, rather than the wealthy older man they preferred, supposedly dishonouring the family's reputation. Sidhu (25), secretly married against the wishes of her family and fled Canada for India to reunite with her husband. Canada's British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court ruled on Friday that there is enough evidence to extradite Jassi's mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and her uncle, Singh Badesha, to India, where they have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, Maple Ridge News reported on Friday. They both face murder and conspiracy charges in India.

The extradition case was bolstered by testimony from Jassi’s co-workers and friends. Seven people in India have been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in her death. The pair have 30 days to file an appeal and the federal minister of justice can veto the judge's decision if Canada does not get assurances from India that they will not be executed, if found guilty, the report said. The final decision rests with the federal minister of justice and even that decision may be appealed. Jody Wright, who worked as a receptionist in a beauty salon at Coquitlam in British Columbia, where Jassi worked as an esthetician, described how the latter spent the last days of her life in fear being closely watched by her family. According to Wright, Jassi married Mithu in March 1999 secretly but her family discovered the fact by the end of that year. She admitted to marrying Mithu after “intense interrogation” by her family, who did not like the latter as he was poor.