Modi-led Indian government’s Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah has authorized a wave of violence across Canada that included extortion and homicides.
Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison told this to a parliamentary committee.
He confirmed the identity of Shah in a newspaper report earlier this month.
The Washington Post first reported that Canadian officials alleged Amit Shah was involved in a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh separatists in Canada.
David Morrison, during the national security committee, told MPs that he was the one who confirmed Shah’s name to that US newspaper.
He said that a journalist called him and asked if it was that person. I confirmed it was that person,” the Canadian deputy FM told the committee.
A year ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that Canada had credible evidence that the Indian government agents were involved in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia.
Canada expelled the Indian high commissioner and five other diplomats on Oct. 14. It was alleged that they were persons of interest in multiple cases of coercion, intimidation and violence aimed at quieting a campaign for an independent Sikh state known as Khalistan.
