Ottawa, Canada—Canada on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) accused India’s government of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader
near Vancouver last June, prompting tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions after New Delhi rejected the charge as “absurd.”Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told an emergency parliamentary session that his government had “credible allegations” linking Indian agents to the June slaying of exiled Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia.
He called “in the strongest possible terms” on the Indian government to cooperate in clearing up the matter.“Today we have expelled a senior Indian diplomat from Canada,” she said, without naming the official. India’s foreign ministry on Tuesday rejected claims of involvement in Nijjar’s death and said it had ordered an unnamed senior Canadian diplomat to leave the country within five days.