Police have arrested the mother and uncle of a young British Columbia woman whose murder in India remained unsolved for 11 years.

But many who have followed the case from its brutal beginning fear it is far from over and that the true test of both Canada's and India's justice systems will likely come into play.

Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 25, of Maple Ridge, B.C., was killed in India a year after she married Sukwinder Singh in a secret ceremony in 1999.

Sidhu was the daughter of wealthy Indian immigrants who settled in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Singh was a poor rickshaw driver in Punjab. Sidhu's parents adamantly opposed the union because of Singh's lower economic status.

Police say Sidhu was killed June 8, 2000. She was found in a Punjab ditch with her throat slit. Singh was seriously injured in the attack that killed Sidhu.

Indian police alleged that the order to kill the young woman came from Sidhu's relatives in B.C., saying they hired contract killers in India.

On Friday, more than 11 years after Sidhu's death, RCMP arrested Sidhu's mother and uncle.

RCMP Cpl. Annie Linteau said Malkit Kaur Sidhu, 63, and sibling Surjit Singh Badesha, 67, of Maple Ridge, B.C., are both in custody awaiting an extradition hearing.

Indian and Punjabi police worked with Mounties on the long investigation, Linteau said.

Seven other people have already been convicted in India on charges related to Sidhu's murder, according to an RCMP statement.

The brutality of Sidhu's death, combined with the doomed lovers' defiance of Sidhu's family, made headlines in India and Canada.

But a former principal of a school that Jaswinder Sidhu studied at, who has sought justice for his student for more than a decade, is not convinced the case is closed.

"I'd like to tell you I'm elated and it's case closed, but I think we're pretty clearly aware of what happens with extradition," Jim Longrich told CTV News. "I'm not confident that this is going to bring justice to Jassi. I'm very concerned about the influence of money on the Indian justice system."

And an author who chronicled the attack in the book Justice for Jassi is also convinced that the case is far from being completed.

"The next steps depend on the lawyering and the pocketbooks of those concerned," said Fabian Dawson.

Still Jaswinder's husband, who suffered serious brain damage in the attack, expressed optimism about the arrests noting that the impending extradition proceedings mean that justice has only been "delayed" and not "denied."

"Justice has finally been met to some extent," he said in a statement. "I am waiting for the day when Jassi's mother and uncle would be brought to India and punished."

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Bhinder Sajan