VANCOUVER: Canadian police on Friday (Could 3) arrested and charged three Indian males with the homicide of Sikh separatist chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar final yr and stated they have been probing whether or not the boys had ties to the Indian authorities.
Nijjar, 45, was shot useless in June exterior a Sikh temple in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb with a big Sikh inhabitants. A number of months later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited proof of Indian authorities involvement, prompting a diplomatic disaster with New Delhi.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) named the three males as Karanpreet Singh, 28, Kamalpreet Singh, 22 and Karan Brar, 22.
“We’re investigating their ties, if any, to the Indian authorities,” Mandeep Mooker, an RCMP superintendent, informed a televised information convention.
The Indian mission in Ottawa didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Nijjar was a Canadian citizen campaigning for the creation of Khalistan, an impartial Sikh homeland carved out of India. The presence of Sikh separatist teams in Canada has lengthy annoyed New Delhi, which had labeled Nijjar a “terrorist”.
Final week, the White Home expressed concern concerning the reported position of the Indian intelligence service in assassination plots in Canada and america.
Canadian police stated they’d labored with US legislation enforcement businesses, with out giving further particulars, and instructed extra detentions is perhaps coming.
“This investigation doesn’t finish right here. We’re conscious that others could have performed a job on this murder and we stay devoted to discovering and arresting every certainly one of these people,” stated assistant RCMP commissioner David Teboul.
