S Jaishankar mentioned he had seen information of the arrests. (File)
Bhubaneswar:
India will look ahead to Canadian police to share data on the three Indian males it has arrested and charged with the homicide of a Khalistani terrorist final yr, Overseas Minister S Jaishankar mentioned on Saturday.
Canadian police charged the three on Friday over the homicide of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and mentioned they had been probing whether or not the suspects had hyperlinks to the Indian authorities.
Mr Jaishankar mentioned he had seen information of the arrests and mentioned the suspects “apparently are Indians of some sort of gang background… we’ll have to attend for the police to inform us.”
“However, as I mentioned, one in all our issues which we’ve got been telling them is that, you recognize, they’ve allowed organized crime from India, particularly from Punjab, to function in Canada,” mentioned Mr Jaishankar.
Sanjay Verma, India’s excessive commissioner to Canada, mentioned that it hopes to get common updates from Canadian authorities relating to the three arrested Indians.
“I perceive that the arrests have been made on account of investigations performed by the related Canadian legislation enforcement businesses. This difficulty is inside to Canada and subsequently we’ve got no feedback to supply on this regard,” Mr Verma added.
The trio, all Indian nationals, had been arrested within the metropolis of Edmonton in Alberta on Friday, police mentioned.
Nijjar, 45, was shot lifeless in June outdoors a gurdwara in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb with a big Sikh inhabitants. A couple of months later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged Indian authorities involvement, prompting a diplomatic disaster with New Delhi.
