New Delhi: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pressed the Indian authorities to collaborate with Canada within the investigation of the dying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist chief who was killed in Canada in June. Trudeau’s enchantment comes after the US Justice Department charged an Indian nationwide for allegedly plotting to kill one other Sikh separatist chief based mostly in New York, CBC News reported. Trudeau informed reporters that the US indictment highlighted the seriousness of the problem.
“The news coming out of the United States further underscores what we’ve been talking about from the very beginning: which is India needs to take this seriously,” he mentioned. He added, “The Indian government needs to work with us to ensure that we’re getting to the bottom of this. This is not something that anyone can take lightly,” in keeping with CBC News report.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, who was in Brussels for a NATO assembly, additionally expressed her expectation of extra cooperation and engagement from India, CBC News reported. She mentioned, “Clearly, we expect more cooperation on their part. And more engagement on their part.” She kept away from commenting on the US prison case.
The US Justice Department revealed the indictment in opposition to the Indian nationwide two months after Trudeau accused India of being concerned within the killing of Nijjar, a Khalistani terrorist, in Surrey, British Columbia. India had dismissed the allegation as “absurd and politically motivated.”
Earlier this week, the Indian High Commissioner in Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, mentioned that India was solely asking for “specific and relevant” proof within the killing of Nijjar, who was designated as a terrorist by India, in order that it may help Canada in concluding the investigation. In an interview with Canadian journalist Tahir Gora at TAG TV Toronto, he mentioned, “India is only asking for specific and relevant information so that we can help you. We can help the Canadian investigators to reach their conclusion, to the extent that it will be viable for them to go for the legal action…I will urge my Canadian friends and colleagues. I can assure them that we will certainly look into them.”
On Wednesday, the US Justice Department filed an indictment in opposition to an Indian nationwide for his alleged involvement in a foiled plot to assassinate a US-based chief of the Sikh Separatist Movement and a citizen in New York. The US Justice Department claimed that an Indian authorities worker (named CC-1), who was not recognized within the indictment filed in a federal court docket in Manhattan, recruited an Indian nationwide named Nikhil Gupta to rent a hitman to hold out the assassination, which was foiled by US authorities. Gupta is at the moment in custody and has been charged with murder-for-hire, which carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail. Czech authorities arrested and detained Gupta on June 30, pursuant to the bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and the Czech Republic. In its indictment, the US Justice Department claimed that, earlier this 12 months, the Indian authorities worker working along with others, together with Gupta, directed a plot to assassinate on a political activist who’s a U.S. citizen of Indian origin residing in New York City. It is claimed that Gupta is an affiliate of CC-1, and has described his involvement in worldwide narcotics and weapons trafficking in his communications with CC-1. The indictment claims CC -1 directed the assassination plot from India. The unsealing of the indictment follows latest sharing of data by the US on a nexus between organised criminals, gun runners and terrorists. India has since shaped a high-level inquiry committee to handle the safety issues highlighted by the US authorities.
