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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. nothi...

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 un...

They would do anything. >> so at that point, were you thinking about your marriage? having children? growing old together? >> translator: yeah. we were living together. and we were thinking about the future at that point in time. i was very relaxed. >> jassi and mithu were together now for about three months. and there were occasional phone calls to canada, rekindling the hope that a reconciliation with her family might still be possible. mithu recalls the last time they spoke to jassi's mother. >> translator: she first berated me for having taken away her daughter and married her. she thought...

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 ha...

Century ago. in october 2005, this antiquated justice system prosecuted those accused of killing jassi sidhu. the verdict? seven of the defendants were convicted of murder, all of them sentenced to life in prison. but three years later, three of the men were acquitted by the punjab high court while the other four convictions were upheld. jassi's mother and uncle, while they were also charged by indian authorities as conspirators in her death, have not been extradited. they have never appeared in an indian court and they have not been tried in absentia. they remain fugitives from indian justice...