Canada has withdrawn 41 diplomats from India over a dispute over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader. Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly announced this on Thursday. Joly said India had threatened to revoke the official status of the diplomats on Friday.
New Delhi asked Ottawa last month to reduce its diplomatic presence after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited evidence of a possible link between Indian agents and the June killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The activist and Canadian citizen was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in suburban Vancouver.
India has dismissed the suspicions
India dismissed as absurd the suspicion that Indian agents were linked to Nijjar’s killing. Nijjar was a representative not only of the Sikh religious community, but also of the so-called Khalistan movement, which advocates an independent country on the territory of India. The leadership in New Delhi therefore regarded the native Indian as a terrorist.
Source: Krone
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