Ottawa: Canada is probing “credible allegations” that Indian agents may have had a role in slaying an exiled Sikh leader in June near Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.
Trudeau told an emergency session of the parliamentary opposition that his government is “actively pursuing” evidence of a link between India and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen.
“The involvement of any foreign government in the murder of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” Trudeau said.
He called “in the strongest possible terms” on the Indian government to cooperate to resolve the matter. Najjar, whom India had declared a wanted terrorist, was gunned down on June 18 in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver home to one of the largest Sikh populations in Canada.
