70 year-old grandmother Bachan Athwal and her son Sukhdave arranged the murder of Sukhdave's wife Surjit in 1998. Surjit vanished during a trip to India for a wedding that that year.Bachan, who has 16 grandchildren, ordered Surjit's death at a family meeting after finding out that she had been having an affair and wanted a divorce. She vowed a divorce would only take place "over my dead body".She boasted to her family she had got rid of Surjit by having a relative strangle her and throw her body into a river. But it was years before her frightened relatives gathered the courage to contact the police, and pass on Bachan's claims. |
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Title: | The Honour Killers | |
Air Date: | December 1, 2009 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Crime | |
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