Canada alleges Home Minister Amit Shah behind plot to kill Sikh separatists
This is the first time that a Canadian official has on record alleged that Shah was involved in the matter.
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Amid strained diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Ottawa, Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs David Morrison on Tuesday alleged that India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah authorised a “campaign to intimidate or kill” Sikh separatists in Canada, CBC News reported.
Morrison made the remarks at a Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security hearing on the “electoral interference and criminal activities in Canada by agents of the Government of India”.
The committee reviews legislation, policies and expenditure plans of the Canadian government departments responsible for public safety, national security, policing, corrections, emergency management, crime prevention and border protection.
Morrison was testifying before legislators on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s allegation earlier this month that agents of the Indian government were complicit in widespread crimes in Canada.
At the hearing on Tuesday, the committee referred to The Washington Post report on October 14, which quoted unidentified Canadian officials as saying that Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing near Vancouver in June 2023 was “part of a broader campaign of violence against Indian dissidents” orchestrated by a senior Indian official and an operative from the country’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing.
The Canadian officials reportedly identified the Indian official who authorised information-gathering missions and attacks on Sikh separatists as Shah.
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