New Delhi (AP Communication) -There is a conflict over the killing of Siku activists in Canada, and the two countries have expelled each other’s top diplomats, and the relationship between India and Canada is in the worst.
Canada announced on Monday that it has identified India’s top diplomat in the country as a precautionary person in the assassination plan and expelled him and five other diplomats. India has rejected the accusations as unreasonable, and the Indian Ministry of External Affairs announced in response that it would expel Canada’s acting high commissioner and five other diplomats.
This is the latest case in which the controversy over the killing of the Siku activist Haru Deep Shin Nijal in June 2023.
What is the controversy?
Nijal was shot to death in a pickup truck in June 2023 after leaving his Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia. An Indian-born Canadian citizen, he owned a plumbing business and was a leader in the movement to create an independent homeland for Sikhism, which is banned in India.
Canadian Prime Minister Canada said in September 2023 that there was a reliable suspicion that the Indian government was involved in the killing. India denied the charges at the time, but Nijal said he was involved in terrorism.
How did the relationship get here?
Canada expelled the Indian diplomat over the conflict last year, and in response to this, India also expeled the Canadian diplomat and frozen consules for Canada for nearly two months.
In May, the Canadian police arrested three Indians on charges of Nijal’s murder and announced that they were investigating if there was no connection with the Indian government, and the tension was once boiled. India has refused to claim that Canada had a “political forced” to blame India.
On Tuesday, October 15, 2024, in front of the Canadian High Commissioner Office in New Delhi, India, after India and Canada expelled each other’s diplomat, over the murder of a Seek activist in Canada. Appearing by bicycle. (AP photo/Mannish Swarap)
What changed on Monday?
Now, Canada has announced that India’s top diplomat in the country is a person of interest in the killing and that police have found evidence of an escalating campaign against Canadian citizens by agents of the Indian government.
Royal Canadian equestrian police have announced that Indian operatives have found evidence involved in “serious crime in Canada,” such as “murder and violence” and interference with Democratic processes in Canada.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Melanie Jolly in Canada has linked Indian authorities to the assassination of Nijal, and Canada has collected “enough, obvious and specific evidence to identify six people as a person in the Nijal incident.” Ta.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly speak during a press conference regarding the investigation into violent criminal activity in Canada with ties to India, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, at Parliament House in Ottawa. (Justin Tan/Canada News Agency (via AP)
He said that he had refused to abandon diplomatic privileges and cooperate in investigation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the India said in a statement on Monday that “despite many requests from Japan,” the Canadian government said with the Indian government. The ministry also argued that the accusation was also part of the intentional strategy of slandering India for political benefits.
Who was Nijal?
Nijjar was a local leader who left behind a once-powerful movement to create an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan. The Harristan exercise is prohibited in India, but is especially supported by discrete sequors.
India designated Nijal as a terrorist in 2020, calling for an arrest on the suspicion of being involved in the Hinduism raid in India at the time of death.
Although New Delhi’s concerns over Canadian Sikh separatist groups have long strained relations, the two countries maintain strong defense and trade ties and share strategic concerns about China’s global ambitions. I am doing it. However, India has been accused of giving a free reins to the sequar separator.
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