{"id":363,"date":"2023-09-18T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/justin-trudeau-says-india-may-have-been-involved-in-murder-of-sikh-leader\/18\/09\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:18:16","slug":"justin-trudeau-says-india-may-have-been-involved-in-murder-of-sikh-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/justin-trudeau-says-india-may-have-been-involved-in-murder-of-sikh-leader\/18\/09\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau says India may have been involved in murder of Sikh leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Receive free Canada updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>We\u2019ll send you a <i>myFT Daily Digest<\/i> email rounding up the latest<!-- --> <!-- -->Canada<!-- --> news every morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=eca1a914-33a0-498e-955f-09f1b2fe887c&amp;concept-id=9a5ac8b4-aa2a-4ed9-a2a6-0c93df8b38e7\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Canada\u2019s prime minister said there are \u201ccredible allegations\u201d that India\u2019s government was involved in the fatal shooting of a prominent Sikh leader in British Columbia, citing intelligence from national security services.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Trudeau on Monday told members of parliament that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/canada\" data-trackable=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Canadian<\/a> authorities were investigating whether \u201cagents\u201d of New Delhi were behind the June killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was shot dead in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver with a large Sikh community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadian 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,\u201d Trudeau said. \u201cAny involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A top Indian diplomat was also expelled from Canada on Monday, said M\u00e9lanie Joly, the country\u2019s foreign minister. \u201cWe will protect Canadians at all times,\u201d Joly told reporters. \u201cWe expect India\u2019s full collaboration to get to the bottom of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/india\" data-trackable=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">India<\/a> last week for the G20 summit and told parliament he brought up the allegations to India\u2019s prime minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>The moves from Ottawa may worsen the already strained relationship between the two countries. Canada\u2019s trade minister last week postponed a trade mission to Mumbai set for October without giving a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is home to nearly 800,000 Sikhs, many of whom live in Surrey and Brampton, a suburb just outside of Toronto. Some Sikh Canadians support the Khalistan independence movement, which would create a sovereign state in Punjab in the northern part of India. The Indian government is strongly opposed to the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Modi, often described as a Hindu nationalist, spoke to Trudeau last week at the G20 summit. Afterward, Modi\u2019s office described pro-Khalistan protests in Canada as \u201cpromoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats, damaging diplomatic premises and threatening the Indian community in Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s government had accused Najjar, a Sikh nationalist, of terrorism and blacklisted him. It has also posted bounties for his arrest. In 2016, Najjar wrote a letter to Trudeau calling India\u2019s allegations baseless and saying that his activism was \u201cpeaceful, democratic and protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After Najjar was killed on the grounds of the gurdwara \u2014 a Sikh house of worship \u2014 where he was president, the World Sikh Organization of Canada called his death an \u201cassassination\u201d and urged Ottawa to investigate India\u2019s role in the killing. British Columbia police said last month that it had identified three suspects in the killing, although they were not identified. No arrests have been made. <\/p>\n<p>Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada\u2019s New Democratic party and a Sikh, said on X, formerly Twitter, that he would leave \u201cno stone unturned in the pursuit of justice, including holding Narendra Modi accountable\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/eca1a914-33a0-498e-955f-09f1b2fe887c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receive free Canada updates We&rsquo;ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Canada news every morning. 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