Canada has expelled an Indian diplomat during its investigation over the killing of a Sikh leader in Canada’s British Columbia province in June.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force and one of India’s most-wanted terrorists who carried a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen outside a gurdwara in Surrey in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.
“Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar,” Trudeau said Monday in a speech to the House of Commons.
“Allegations of the government of India’s involvement in any act of violence in Canada are absurd and motivated,” the ministry of external affairs said in a statement in New Delhi.