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My marriage with jassi. and these boys were tortured. >> back in canada, despite being closely watched, jassi was finally able to make contact with mithu. that's when jassi learned of what she thought was her uncle's attempt to force mithu and his family to end their marriage. >> they took his mother into a prison they beat his mother. >> mithu was freaking out on the other end. he said, my family, my friends are being threatened. i'm being threatened. you got to get over here. >> but to escape, jassi would need help from her friends. one of them called the local police, who then came to the f...

Now back to our program. this stunning 25-year-old indian woman named jassi grew up in canada in a strict sikh family. she secretly married her soul mate, mithu, in the spring of 2000, in india. but jassi's family denounced the marriage. jassi's uncle tried to tear them apart. he tried to end the marriage through deception, mithu said. he went from telling them to divorce, to threatening mithu's friends and family, to having mithu arrested, accusing him of forcing jassi into marrying him through rape. the charges were dropped after jassi said their marriage was consensual. after they'd been ...

To agree to divorce jassi. otherwise, they would kill my whole family. >> apparently furious that mithu had ignored his threats, jassi's uncle decided to do something about it. he came to court here in the punjab and he charged mithu with kidnapping jassi and forcing her to marry him. and remember that notarized statement that the uncle had jassi sign, the one in punjabi that she couldn't read? well, that's what he gave to the court as proof. it says in part that jassi didn't love mithu. that the wedding took place at gunpoint. and she wanted the marriage dissolved. it essentially accuses mith...

Young bride, jassi sidhu, married an indian man, whom her family refused to accept. she was murdered three months later. indian police charged 13 people, including her mother and uncle, who live in canada. in 2004, mithu, the groom, was thrown in jail. he was charged with raping a girl. he claimed he was framed by jassi's family. this chaotic scene on the grounds of the principal courthouse in the punjab's largest city may help to explain the painfully slow progress of indian justice. lawyers conferring outside with clients, preparing their cases much as they would have a

Jassi's uncle and her mother had promised them $50,000 -- a fortune in the punjab -- to kill mithu and kidnap jassi. but for inspector singh, it was what happened here, inside this farmhouse on the night of june the 8th, that was the final piece of the puzzle. he says that according to the confessions he extracted, jassi was dragged up to this room, where she was put on a cellular telephone. for five years she had been caught between two worlds. that night, they collided. ancient tradition and modern values. family honor and romantic love. and now, the sword and the cell phone. at the other en...