Ottawa: One of the suspects within the killing of Sikh separatist chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar, has mentioned in a social media video that he entered Canada on a ‘research allow’ which solely took him days to acquire, Canada-based world information reported.
The accused, Karan Brar, in a video posted on-line in 2019, mentioned he utilized for a pupil visa by way of EthicWorks Immigration Services in Bathinda, within the Indian state of Punjab.
He mentioned he acquired his research visa days later, in line with a translation of his Punjabi-language assertion, as per Global News. The promotional video and an image of Brar, who the agency claimed was from Kotkapura, a metropolis north of Bathinda, have been uploaded on EthicWorks’ Facebook web page.
“Congratulations Karan Brar for the Canada study visa,” the caption under the video learn. “One more happy client from Kotkapura,” reported Global News.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller has declined to reply questions on how the suspects got here to Canada, however on-line posts point out that Brar arrived on a pupil allow three years earlier than the killing.
According to a different Facebook web page purportedly owned by Brar, he moved to Edmonton on May 4, 2020, after beginning his research at Bow Valley College in Calgary on April 30, 2020, Global News reported. However, questions regarding the topic haven’t but acquired a response from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Brar, 22, Karanpreet Singh, 28, and Kamalpreet Singh, 22, have been all taken into custody in Edmonton on Friday. They are accused of homicide and conspiracy; they appeared in court docket in Surrey, British Columbia on Tuesday. Members of the Sikh Community from British Columbia crowded a Surrey courtroom on Tuesday as three Indian nationals accused of Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing made their first court docket look by video, in line with Globe and Mail, a Canada-based information web site.
As the trio, wearing orange jumpsuits, appeared earlier than court docket, pro-Khalistani protesters chanted slogans and held placards, outdoors the Surrey provincial court docket, blaming India’s authorities for the killing. The three males have been taken into custody in Edmonton final week on Friday and are accused of first-degree homicide and murderous conspiracy in reference to the June 2023 capturing of Nijjar, which severely broken Canada’s relations with India.
Notably, ties between India and Canada have been strained after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused brokers of the Indian authorities of killing Nijjar. However, India has dismissed the accusations as “absurd” and “motivated”.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was designated a terrorist by India’s National Investigation Agency in 2020, was shot and killed as he got here out of a Gurdwara in Surrey in June final yr. The video of his killing that reportedly surfaced in March this yr confirmed Nijjar being shot by armed males in what has been described as a “contract killing.” Last week, Canadian police launched images of all three individuals arrested within the killing of India-designated terrorist, Nijjar final yr amid an ongoing probe into alleged connections of the Indian authorities.
Along with images of the three accused, the Canadian police additionally launched the pictures of the automobile believed to have been utilized by the suspects within the time main as much as the murder, in and across the Surrey space.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) of Surrey, RCMP had mentioned that on the morning of May 3, IHIT investigators, with the help of members from the British Columbia and Alberta RCMP and the Edmonton Police Service, arrested the three males for the June 2023 killing of Nijjar.
