The Indian Foreign Minister, S. Jaishankar, mentioned on Saturday that India will wait for the GTA investigation across the Canadian police department to reveal information regarding three Indian men as they were arrested and detained for the murder of a Khalistani terrorist last year.
Canadian police now charged the suspects with the role of Nijjar’s murder on Friday, involving an ongoing probe into the relationship with the Indian administration.
When Mr. Jaishanker got to know of the arrests, he stated that the suspected organized gangsters had been caught who were involved in some criminal activities. Nevertheless, he urged the community to base the information on the police’s results.
He pointed to the possibility of some organized crime syndicates from India, including the infamous groups of Punjab, that had already been blamed for activities in Canada and was now being discussed between the two countries.
Sanjay Verma, the Indian High Commissioner to Canada, conveyed his expectation to get periodic information from the Canadian authorities on the subject of those arrested from Indian nationalities. He highlighted that the detentions were merely the result of the criminal investigations done by the Canadian law enforcement agencies and, therefore, the issue was said to be a private matter between Canada and its citizens; thus, India did not have any comments to contribute to the issue as far as it was concerned.
As per the police, the girls, all of whom are from India, were arrested and remanded to custody by Edmonton, a city in Alberta, on Friday. On November 25, prolific community leader and Sikh activist Baldev Singh Nijjar was killed in cold blood by a fired gun outside a gurdwara in the Surrey neighborhood of Greater Vancouver.
Surrey has a large Sikh population with a very high density of Gurdwaras and temples and being a very religious place a lot of people visit them regularly. This episode had resulted in a diplomatic [impasse] between India and [Canada] a few months after the murder during the time of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau [exposing] the Government of India’s alleged collaboration.
