NEW DELHI: Ottawa has refused to entertain the Nationwide Investigation Company’s request for the loss of life certificates of pro-Khalistan operative Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an Indian-origin citizen of Canada who was killed there in June final yr. Nijjar was accused in 9 instances being investigated by NIA.
NIA had approached Canada for Nijjar’s loss of life certificates to fulfil the authorized requirement of updating the courts right here in view of the instances that have been pending towards him. Nevertheless, as per NIA sources, the Canadian authorities posed some counter-queries, together with why the loss of life certificates of its citizen needs to be sought by India. “After that, they refused to share his loss of life certificates,” stated an officer.
Nijjar’s homicide had triggered a diplomatic row with the Canadian govt alleging the position of Indian businesses, a cost promptly and stoutly denied by New Delhi. The row had just lately escalated with Canada naming senior Indian diplomats as “individuals of curiosity” within the Nijjar homicide investigation, and India retaliating by withdrawing these diplomats from the nation.
NIA can also be but to achieve securing an Interpol red-corner discover towards one other pro-Khalistan rabble rouser and designated terrorist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who’s a US citizen. NIA is investigating six instances of Khalistani terror towards Pannun and has hooked up three of his properties — throughout Chandigarh, Amritsar and Pathankot — up to now on grounds of being proceeds of terrorism. Curiously, there was an try on Pannun’s life within the US in New York in June 2023, prompting the US to say the involvement of an Indian official.
Final week, an unsealed indictment confirmed that the US had charged Vikash Yadav, described as a former officer in India’s Analysis and Evaluation Wing spy service, with directing the plot towards the Sikh separatist.
