India declines Trudeau’s accusations, claims Canada has actually supplied no proof in Nijjar murder–

India on Thursday declined the accusations made by the Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau over India’s declared function of Indian federal government representatives in the 2023 murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, stating that the Canadian federal government has actually not supplied any type of shred of details considering that September of 2023.

On Wednesday, Trudeau indicated prior to the nation’s international disturbance query in the middle of the intensifying India-Canada polite row, throughout which the PM recognized that he had no “hard evidentiary proof” and just had knowledge when Canada in 2014 declared the participation of the Indian federal government representatives in the murder of Nijjar.

Addressing the media on Thursday on the concern, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal claimed, ” We have made our position very clear on this particular matter. Since, September of 2023 the Canadian government has not shared any shred of information with us. Yesterday, again, after the public inquiry, public hearing again, issued a statement saying that Canada has given serious allegations but has so far not given any evidence to back it up…as far as the allegations are concerned, PM Trudeau’s own admission, yesterday would indicate the value of these allegations. As regards our stance…we reject false imputations against our diplomats”

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“We had summoned the acting High Commissioner of Canada and thereafter conveyed that we had no faith that the Canadian government will look after the safety of our diplomats and therefore, we had taken a decision to withdraw our High Commissioner and five other diplomats along with him. Subsequent to that, we saw that there was a communication from the Canadian side asking them to leave, but we had withdrawn our diplomats before their decision,” he said.

Talking about India- Canada relations, he said that the economic ties between the two countries are very strong and vibrant. “We have large Indian diaspora in Canada which is a bridge through which we maintain strong people-to-people links with Canada. We have possibly the largest cohort of international students in Canada as well. This particular crisis has been precipitated by Trudeau government’s baseless allegations. This is how we see the relationship going forward,” he added.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also admitted Wednesday that he did not present concrete evidence to India on Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing on Canadian soil and said that he only shared intelligence before publicly accusing India of being involved in the Khalistani separatist’s assassination.

Nijjar was fatally shot in his pickup truck in June 2023 after he left the Sikh temple he led in the city of Surrey, British Columbia.

The diplomatic dispute escalated when Canada designated High Commissioner Sanjay Verma and other Indian diplomats in Ottawa as “persons of interest,” accusing them of involvement in Nijjar’s killing last September.