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Darshan Singh Sidhu, one of seven people in India originally implicated in the alleged “honour” killing of a B.C. woman in that country in 2000, was granted a permanent resident visa to Canada by mistake in 2008 after he lied about his criminal record.

The error was revealed in a recent Federal Court decision concerning whether Sidhu’s son, who was granted a visa at the same time, should be allowed to remain in Canada despite the misrepresentations of his father, who has since returned to India.

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It is one of many legal twists and turns that have taken place in Canada and India since the murder of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 25. The woman from Maple Ridge, B.C., and her rickshaw-driver husband, Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu, were attacked by a mob of men in the Punjab region of India in June 2000. Her body was found the next day, her throat slit.

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Police in India alleged that Jaswinder’s mother, Malkit Kaur Sidhu, and her uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, ordered the killing from B.C. after Jaswinder did not marry a wealthier man chosen for her. Seven people in India, including Darshan Singh Sidhu, were originally convicted of orchestrating the killing on behalf of Jaswinder’s family in Canada.