Canada’s allegations about Amit Shah absurd and baseless, says foreign ministry
The external affairs ministry on Friday summoned a representative of the Canadian High Commission, and protested the allegations ‘in the strongest terms’.
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Canada’s allegation that India’s Home Minister Amit Shah was behind a series of plots to kill or intimidate Sikh separatists was “absurd and baseless”, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday.
The Indian government summoned a representative of the Canadian High Commission on Friday, and handed the official a note protesting “in the strongest terms” the allegations against Shah.
On October 29, Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs David Morrison alleged that Shah authorised a “campaign to intimidate or kill” Sikh separatists in Canada. This was the first time that a Canadian official alleged the Indian home minister’s involvement on record.
Morrison made the remarks before a panel looking into the “electoral interference and criminal activities in Canada by agents of the Government of India”.
The minister was asked about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s allegation that agents of the Indian government were complicit in widespread crimes in Canada.
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...
