Day, after Canada decided to arrest the fourth Indian connected with the murder of Khalistnai separatist-terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, opened up about the investigation and said that the Canadian authorities didn’t share anything with India to look into the issue.
While addressing a seminar on Indian Capital Markets at the NSR in Mumbai, S Jaishankar stated, “We are open to investigating it, but to date, we have never received anything specific and worthy of being pursued by our investigative agencies.”
S Jaishankar’s remarks come after the day the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team of Canada’s British Columbia province arrested an Indian nation in connection with the June 2023 killing of Hardee Singh Nijjar.
“We pursued the evidence and gained sufficient information for the BC Prosecution Service to charge Amandeep Singh with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder,” the police statement said. “This arrest shows the nature of our ongoing investigations to hold responsible those who played a role in the homicide of Hardeep Singh Nijjar,” it added.
Earlier, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Kamalpreet Singh, Karan Brar, and Karanpreet Singh and charged them with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed by bike-borne assailants last year outside Surrey’s Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in June of the previous year. He was labeled as an “individual terrorist” by the Indian authorities and played a crucial role in conducting anti-India activities in Canada.
The killing evoked a massive diplomatic row between Canada and India after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the “agents of Indian governments” of the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India rejected the Canadian PM’s claims, called them “absurd”, and even expelled multiple Canadian diplomats from the country.
