Murdered Indo-Canadian drug smuggler Karmjit “Jazzy” Sran’s wife Cindy Sran and sister-in-law Rajni Kaushal have been named in a B.C. government lawsuit that seeks to seize the money and vehicles, which they claim is proceeds of crime. Sran, who was shot to death in July at his Abbotsford home, was fighting extradition to the U.S. where he was facing charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

ABBOTSFORD – Murdered Indo-Canadian drug smuggler Karmjit “Jazzy” Sran’s wife Cindy Sran and sister-in-law Rajni Kaushal have been named in a B.C. government lawsuit that seeks to seize the money and vehicles, which they claim is proceeds of crime. 

Sran, who was shot to death in July at his Abbotsford home, was fighting extradition to the U.S. where he was facing charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

Just months before Sran was shot to death in July, the RCMP picked him up as part of a trafficking investigation. But before any Canadian charges were approved, Sran was gunned down at his Abbotsford home on Lucern Crescent on July 10. His murder remains unsolved, reported Vancouver Sun.

The BC government suit, filed by the director of civil forfeiture on Oct. 21, said the RCMP began an investigation in early 2020 “into the drug trafficking activities of Karmjit Singh Sran and Ms. Kaushal.”

The statement of claim says a property owned by Jazzy Sran at 32850 George Ferguson Way was being used as a “stash house.”

For six weeks in March and April, police watched as Sran and Kaushal had multiple meetings “indicative of drug trafficking.” The meetings were short, sometimes with “hand-to-hand transactions with other individuals.”

On April 29, Mounties watched Sran “exit the stash house carrying a black object under his right arm, partially covered by his jacket.” He then met with Kaushal in a vehicle where he appeared to leave the item behind before exiting, reported Vancouver Sun.

Vancouver police pulled Kaushal over on Alberni Street later that day. She was arrested “for possession for the purpose of trafficking,” the suit says.

Police searched the vehicle and found “a black shopping bag containing six bundles totalling $59,500 in Canadian currency, bundled with elastic bands,” another $510 in cash, almost three grams of cocaine, an encrypted cellphone and an iPhone.

Police also had Sran under surveillance and followed him from his house to the stash house on Brookside Avenue in Abbotsford, which eventually led to the arrest of Sran at the stash house, where they found 90 grams of cocaine and documents belonging to him.

The government wants Kaushal’s 2013 Nissan Rogue forfeited along with the $60,010 seized by police as instruments of criminal activity. And they want more than $10,000 seized from the Sran residence and Cindy Sran also forfeited.

“The money was found in proximity to controlled substances and/or was bundled or packaged in a manner not consistent with standard banking practices,” the director claimed in the suit.

Neither Karmjit Sran, Cindy Sran or Rajini Kaushal were charged in the B.C. investigation. And no statements of defence have yet been filed in the lawsuit.