The Justin Trudeau-led Canadian authorities on Friday denied a report linking high Indian leaders to legal actions in Canada, saying it’s “speculative and inaccurate”.
In a press release days after a robust rebuttal from New Delhi, National safety and intelligence advisor to Justin Trudeau, Nathalie G Drouin, stated the Canadian authorities is “not conscious” of any proof of the claims made by a Canadian media home citing unnamed officers.
“On October 14th, due to a big and ongoing menace to public security, the RCMP and officers took the extraordinary step of creating public accusations of great legal exercise in Canada perpetrated by brokers of the Government of India. The Government of Canada has not acknowledged, neither is it conscious of the proof, linking Prime Minister Modi, Minister Jaishankar, or NSA Doval to the intense legal exercise inside Canada,” the assertion learn.
The report by Canada’s ‘Globe and Mail’ newspaper on Thursday quoted unnamed Canadian officers claiming that Indian leaders had been “conscious” of the plot to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar – who was killed in Vancouver final yr.
India instantly responded sharply to what it known as “ludicrous claims”, with External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal calling the report a “smear marketing campaign”.
“Such ludicrous statements made to a newspaper purportedly by a Canadian authorities supply ought to be dismissed with the contempt they deserve. Smear campaigns like this solely additional injury our already strained ties,” Mr Jaiswal stated.
India-Canada diplomatic disaster after Nijjar’s killing
India-Canada diplomatic relations have nosedived after Justin Trudeau raised allegations that Indian brokers had been concerned within the killing of Nijjar, a Sikh separatist and the mastermind behind the banned terror outfit ‘Khalistan Tiger Force’. The Canadian Prime Minister claimed he had “credible allegations” of India’s hand within the Nijjar killing.
India has repeatedly trashed the allegations, accusing Mr Trudeau of pandering to Khalistani sympathisers for home political positive aspects at a time his reputation with Canadian voters is at an all-time low. India has additionally termed the allegations “absurd” and “politically motivated”.
Last month, the Canadian authorities linked Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Verma and another diplomats to the killing. The Centre rejected the claims and identified that regardless of repeated requests for proof, Canada had did not share any substantive proof to substantiate its allegations.