New Delhi: A Canada-based Indian girl fell in love with an auto driver of Punjab and fled her parents' home to get married to her lover in India. But her life was cut short when her mother hired contract killers who murdered her a year after she her marriage.
Unable to digest the fact that her educated daughter had married an auto driver, Malkiat Kaur and her brother gave contract to kill her in 2,000. They hired killers with the help of a Punjab Police officer who managed things for them on their instructions from Canada.
Fifteen years later, the Supreme Court convicted the three killers and the police officer and sentenced them to life imprisonment for the murder. The police have not been able to nab the mother and her brother who have been declared proclaimed offenders.
Jaswinder Kaur, living with her parents in Canada, fell in love with auto driver Sukhwinder while on a trip to India. She got married in court on April 15, 1999 against the wishes of her parents and her maternal uncle. She thereafter went to Canada.
Her mother then faxed a complaint to Punjab police against Sukhwinder with the forged signature of her daughter and an FIR was lodged by the accomplice police officer against the auto driver for illegally confining Jaswinder.
After knowing that a false FIR had been filed against her husband, Jaswinder came back to India and told the police that she married out of her own will and she had not faxed the complaint. She refused to go to Canada and started living with her husband. The mother tried to persuade her to leave Sukhwinder and return to Canada but she refused. The mother then hatched a conspiracy with police officer Joginder Singh to kill Jaswinder. They hired killers murdered Jaswinder on June 8, 2000 while she was travelling with her husband on a scooter. Sukhwinder survived the attack but was critically injured.
