Canada rejects media report linking PM Modi to alleged plot to kill Khalistan separatist
‘Any suggestion to the contrary is both speculative and inaccurate,’ said the Justin Trudeau government.
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The Canadian government on Thursday stated that it has no evidence linking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the alleged plot to kill Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
“Any suggestion to the contrary is both speculative and inaccurate,” said Nathalie G Drouin, National Security and Intelligence Adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Her remarks came a day after a Canadian news report quoted an unidentified national security official as saying that Modi was aware of the alleged plot to kill Nijjar. New Delhi, in response, dismissed the news report and said that it was part of a “smear campaign”.
Nijjar was killed by masked gunmen near Canada’s Vancouver in June 2023. He was a supporter of Khalistan, a separate homeland for Sikhs sought by some groups. He was the head of the Khalistan Tiger Force, which is designated a terrorist outfit in India.
In September 2023, Trudeau told his country’s parliament that intelligence agencies were actively pursuing “credible allegations” tying agents of the Indian government to Nijjar’s killing.
On Wednesday, The Globe and Mail quoted the unidentified national security official as saying that security agencies in the North American country believed Modi “knew about the killing of a Sikh separatist leader [referring to Nijjar] in British Columbia and other violent plots”.
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