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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. y...

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...

In 2002, we first told you the story of the young 25-year-old canadian, jassi sidhu. she was murdered in india, after marrying a man of whom her family didn't approve. 13 were charged with murder for killing the young bride, including her own mother and uncle. the people accused of killing jassi also attacked mithu. when we went back to india in 2005, we found out that he had been in jail for a year. mithu, i'm bob mckeown. we met a couple years ago. we found mithu as he was escorted from a prison bus. he and many others insist he's been jailed on totally false charges of rape. the accusation ...

Yet. people all over the world have taken an interest in mithu and jassi, urging authorities to press charges against jassi's uncle and mother. about 20,000 have signed a petition online at justiceforjassi.com. a website created by the south asian post publisher. >> it's unacceptable, after seven years, that a girl has been murdered, a canadian citizen has been killed in india and yet we have her mother and uncle yet to be charged. >> now, free again, mithu decided to move to a new city in india to start rebuilding his life. though jassi's death has been tragic for mithu in so many ways, her f...