3 Indian nationals were arrested for the Murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
3 Indian nationals were arrested for the Murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
On Friday, 3rd May 2024, Canadian police took into custody 3-men in connection with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver the previous year, which was connected to the government of India. The killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar triggered a significant political conflict between Canada and India last October, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggesting Indian government participation in the crime. In this manner, 3-Indian nationals, including (2 aged 22 while1 aged 28), were captured on 3rd May and charged with 1st-degree murder as well as related crimes. These people are suspected that they served as the shooter, driver, and monitor on the day Hardeep Singh Nijjar died.
Police detained them in Edmonton, in the surrounding province of Alberta, where they live, and currently, they remain kept until further procedures. “The investigation isn’t finished here. We have been informed that additional people may have been involved in this killing,” explained Mandeep Mooker of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s murder investigations squad. Historically, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who traveled to Canada in the year of 1997 and even became a citizen in the year of 2015, campaigned for the creation of a distinct Sikh state, Khalistan, outside of India. Indian police looked for him as a suspected terrorist while planning to kill. On 18th June 2023, masked gunmen shot him murder in the parking area of the Sikh temple he supervised in suburban Vancouver.
Many months after that, Trudeau stated that Canada had trusted complaints connecting Indian intelligence to the crime and removed an Indian officer, triggering political problems with New Delhi. Evenly, Police Officer Mandeep Mooker stated that Canadian authorities are still examining the criminals’ links, “in case they exist, to the Indian government. These things are beneficial so that the inquiry keeps going on,” Moninder Singh, Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s close friend, told AFP. “However, India is blamed for hiring persons to kill Sikh leaders in other countries,” remarked Singh, an official for the British Columbia Council of Gurdwaras. Canada has around (770,000) Sikhs, or roughly 2% of the population, with an active minority supporting a separate nation of Khalistan.
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