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Arrangement for this man that was in his 60s that was going to marry jassi. and jassi was adamant that she wouldn't marry him. >> torn between the pressure from her family to marry and the desire to lead a life of her own, jassi came up with a plan. she convinced her mother to bring her to india. in fact, to the state called the punjab, where her mom had grown up. she explained it might help her in choosing a husband. but there's something else she didn't tell her mother. so, was that just a scheme on her part? >> a scheme on her part. to get there, i think. >> to delay the arranged marriage h...

And that puts dishonor on the parents' role. >> back in canada, jassi told her friends that's exactly why she had to keep her family from finding out about her marriage to mithu. >> they would write letters to each other and secret phone calls and things. and nobody was allowed in her family couldn't find out because it was wrong. she knew it was very wrong. >> but the letters to mithu, revealed that the girl who had never had a date, let alone a boyfriend, wasn't about to give up the first man she'd ever loved. >> i can't wait until we're together. i miss you very much. i keep on thinking abo...

Inadmissible in indian court. so it makes sense that that same evidence could be rejected by the justice system here in canada. >> you can't use canada as a hiding ground to hire people to kill people in other countries and get away with it. >> in canada, the wheels of justice turned, oh, so slowly. in india, jassi's heartbroken husband, mithu, was under guard 24 hours a day, to protect him from any other attempts at revenge. though life was difficult for mithu, he did find comfort in the knowledge that the men who were charged with killing jassi, were behind bars, awaiting trial. but four yea...

The worst was behind them. but on the night of june 8th, 2000, they were attacked by several men on their way home from the market. mithu was left on the ground, motionless, while jassi was forced into a car and driven to a farmhouse 40 miles away. and that's where she was killed, her body dumped by the road. she had been beaten, stabbed, her throat slashed. so, you literally found out by picking up the morning newspaper? >> uh-huh. >> what went through your mind at that moment? >> no. it's not true. no. >> almost immediately, suspicion fell on the family. >> i did not do anything. >> instead,...

Jassi spoke to her mother from the family compound. jassi begged for forgiveness. but it was too late for that. the kidnappers got their final instructions. >> translator: surgit saying, finally told the killers on the mobile phone, that the girl should be murdered and the body thrown away. because if she was allowed to stay alive, she would eventually indict the whole lot of them. >> in the end, 13 people were charged with murder. the men accused of planning and carrying out the attack against jassi and mithu in india. and jassi's mother and uncle in canada, who allegedly paid them to do it. ...