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The mother and uncle of a young B.C. woman murdered in Punjab in 2000 have lost their last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to India.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed an application from Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha to have an extradition order against them stayed because they claimed there was an abuse of process.

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The two are alleged to have been involved in the so-called honour killing of Sidhu’s daughter Jaswinder “Jassi” Kaur, who ignored her family’s wishes and married a poor rickshaw driver while on vacation in India in 1999.

After the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously against the accused brother and sister in September 2017, the RCMP escorted Sidhu and Badesha from their B.C. jails to Toronto, where they were placed aboard a flight to India.

But the extraction was “dramatically halted” before the plane disembarked because lawyers for Sidhu and Badesha filed a last-minute court application asking for a review of Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s decision to surrender them to Indian authorities.