NEW DELHI: Following New Delhi’s announcement that its envoy had been included among “persons of interest” in connection with the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, India and Canada each expelled the other’s ambassador along with five other senior diplomats.
A government source in Ottawa told AFP that although New Delhi claimed to be removing its six diplomats from Canada, they had actually been expelled.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that there were “credible allegations” connecting Indian intelligence agents to the 2023 murder of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, which shattered Canada’s diplomatic ties with India. India on Monday called allegations it was connected to the killing “preposterous” and a “strategy of smearing India for political gains.”
Four Indian nationals have been arrested in connection with Nijjar’s murder, which took place in the parking lot of a Sikh temple in Vancouver in June 2023.
New Delhi had earlier said it had “received a diplomatic communication from Canada suggesting that the Indian High Commissioner and other diplomats are persons of interest” in the ongoing investigation.
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