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© Reuters. A mural options the picture of late Sikh chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was slain on the grounds of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in June 2023, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada September 18, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India characterised as “absurd and motivated” an accusation by Canada that it was concerned within the homicide of a Sikh separatist chief, urging the nation as a substitute to take authorized motion in opposition to anti-Indian components working from its soil.
The dispute offers an extra blow to diplomatic ties, with New Delhi sad over Sikh separatist exercise in Canada, and now threatens commerce ties, with talks on a proposed commerce deal frozen.
Canada was “actively pursuing credible allegations” linking Indian authorities brokers to the homicide of Sikh separatist chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau advised the Home of Commons on Monday.
Nijjar, who was shot lifeless outdoors a Sikh temple in June, had been designated a “terrorist” by India in July 2020, following his help for a Sikh homeland within the type of an unbiased state of Khalistan.
“Allegations of the federal government of India’s involvement in any act of violence in Canada are absurd and motivated,” its international ministry mentioned on Tuesday.
Comparable accusations made by Trudeau to Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been “utterly rejected”, it added in an announcement.
“We urge the federal government of Canada to take immediate and efficient authorized motion in opposition to all anti-India components working from their soil,” the ministry mentioned.
Such “unsubstantiated allegations” sought to shift the main target away from “Khalistani terrorists and extremists who’ve been offered shelter in Canada”, it added.
Canada additionally expelled India’s high intelligence agent within the nation on Monday.
Trudeau mentioned he had raised the problem of the homicide immediately with Modi on the sidelines of final week’s G20 summit in New Delhi, and urged his authorities to co-operate with Canada to resolve it.
Modi, in flip, conveyed robust concern to Trudeau over current demonstrations in Canada by Sikhs calling for an unbiased state.
Canada has the most important inhabitants of Sikhs outdoors the Indian state of Punjab, with about 770,000 individuals reporting Sikhism as their faith within the 2021 census.
Khalistan is an unbiased Sikh state whose creation has been sought for many years.
