Canada’s investigation into the homicide of a Sikh extremist has been tainted by a high-level Canadian official’s public statements, India’s Excessive Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma has stated as he requested Ottawa to supply proof to again up its allegations.
An interview
In an interview with the Globe and Mail newspaper, Verma on Friday stated that there “isn’t any particular or related info supplied on this case for us to help them within the investigation.”
“The place is the proof? The place is the conclusion of the investigation? I’d go a step additional and say now the investigation has already been tainted,” Verma was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
A cryptic message
“A course has come from somebody at a excessive stage to say India or Indian brokers are behind it,” he stated, with out naming anybody.
Timing
The feedback come at a time when India-Canada relations are evidently witnessing some progress. India determined to renew visa providers in Canada for 4 classes from October 26 after a thought-about evaluate of the safety state of affairs.
In September, India had suspended its visa providers in Canada amid a diplomatic dispute triggered by remarks of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who alleged that there was a possible hyperlink between Indian brokers and the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June – which India rejected as “absurd and motivated”.
An interview
In an interview with the Globe and Mail newspaper, Verma on Friday stated that there “isn’t any particular or related info supplied on this case for us to help them within the investigation.”
“The place is the proof? The place is the conclusion of the investigation? I’d go a step additional and say now the investigation has already been tainted,” Verma was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
A cryptic message
“A course has come from somebody at a excessive stage to say India or Indian brokers are behind it,” he stated, with out naming anybody.
Timing
The feedback come at a time when India-Canada relations are evidently witnessing some progress. India determined to renew visa providers in Canada for 4 classes from October 26 after a thought-about evaluate of the safety state of affairs.
In September, India had suspended its visa providers in Canada amid a diplomatic dispute triggered by remarks of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who alleged that there was a possible hyperlink between Indian brokers and the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June – which India rejected as “absurd and motivated”.
