For last year of his tenure, Sikh activists accused India’s top diplomat in Western Canada of playing a role in the June 18 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Sikh protesters stand outside of Surrey Provincial Court, where four suspects arrested by Canadian police for the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, appear, in Surrey , on May 21. India ’s top diplomat in Western Canada has moved to a new job in the Mediterranean as the RCMP probe whether the murder of a Sikh activist in Surrey , B.C., last year was tied to agents of the India n government.
Less than a month after the slaying, Khalistan activists put Mr. Manish’s face on posters at rallies at New Delhi’s Vancouver and Toronto consulates and called for him and other employees of the Indian state to face justice for their alleged roles.after Mr. Trudeau told the House of Commons that Canadian security agencies were probing allegations that the Indian government had played a role in the slaying of Mr. Nijjar.
On Tuesday morning in Surrey, Karan Brar, Kamalpreet Singh and Karanpreet Singh walked into courtroom in red prison sweatsuits to appear in person on the charges for the first time. A fourth suspect Amandeep Singh appeared by video link from Ontario, where he is in prison and facing unrelated weapons offences.
Photos posted to the consulate-general’s official social-media accounts on May 2 show Raj Chouhan, an NDP MLA and Speaker of B.C.’s Legislature, standing up from his seat across from the former consul-general to give a speech to the long table of roughly two-dozen attendees. Mr. Chouhan is also shown posing with Mr. Manish.
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