Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 20th Sept. Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly on Tuesday announced that Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat, the decision was made after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged a possible link between the Indian government and the killing of a Khalistani terrorist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June.
Justin Trudeau said that the country’s security agencies were investigating a link between the Indian government and the killing of the Khalistani terrorist.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said the head of Indian intelligence in Canada has been expelled.
“If proven true, this would be a great violation of our sovereignty and of the most basic rule of how countries deal with each other,” Joly said.
“As a consequence we have expelled a top Indian diplomat,” Joly said, as quoted by various media reports.
She also said that Justin Trudeau had raised the matter with President Joe Biden.
“Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence security officials of the Indian government.
The Canadian Prime Minister said that “I brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Modi in no uncertain terms,” during the G20..
He said “In the strongest possible terms, I continue to urge the government of India to cooperate with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter.”
Canada Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Canada’s national security advisor and the head of Canada’s spy service have travelled to India to meet their counterparts and to confront the Indian espionage agencies with the allegations.
He called it an active killing investigation.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was wanted by the Indian government, but was shot dead on June 18 outside a gurdwara in Surrey.
In 2022, the National Investigation Agency declared a Rs 10 lakh reward on Nijjar after he was accused of conspiring to kill a Hindu priest in Punjab’s Jalandhar.
The conspiracy to kill the priest was executed by the Khalistan Tiger Force.
Nijjar, who was based in Canada, was the chief of the KTF.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference during the G20 Summit in Delhi said that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had talked about Khalistani extremism and “foreign interference” during their meeting on the sidelines of the summit.
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