India has strongly rejected all of the allegations made by Ottawa regarding the case and subsequently recalled the excessive commissioner. The Canadian authorities had mentioned the Indian diplomats have been expelled from the nation.
India on Wednesday strongly trashed as “smear campaign” a Canadian media report that claimed that the Indian prime minister was conscious of the alleged plot to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Referring to the report quoting an unnamed official, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned such “ludicrous statements” needs to be dismissed with the contempt they deserve.
“We do not normally comment on media reports. However, such ludicrous statements made to a newspaper purportedly by a Canadian government source should be dismissed with the contempt they deserve,” he mentioned. “Smear campaigns like this only further damage our already strained ties,” he mentioned.
Jaiswal was responding to media queries concerning the report in Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. In the report, the newspaper cited inputs from a senior nationwide safety official.
The report claimed the Indian nationwide safety advisor and the exterior affairs minister have been additionally within the loop of the plot. Nijjar was gunned down on Canadian soil final yr.
India-Canada ties nosedived final month after Canada linked Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Verma and another diplomats to the homicide.
India has strongly rejected all of the allegations made by Ottawa regarding the case and subsequently recalled the excessive commissioner. The Canadian authorities had mentioned the Indian diplomats have been expelled from the nation.
New Delhi expelled Canadian Charge d’Affaires Stewart Wheeler and 5 different diplomats following Canada’s allegations.
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