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Canada expels Indian diplomat over alleged role in Sikh citizen’s killing; New Delhi rejects charges

by News Desk

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.

“Similar allegations were made by the Canadian Prime Minister to our Prime Minister, and were completely rejected,” it said. “We are a democratic polity with a strong commitment to the rule of law,” the MEA said.
Trudeau told the lawmakers that any involvement of a foreign government in killing a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is “an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.”
He also disclosed that he had raised with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the issue during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi earlier this month.

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