Amidst diplomatic tensions between India and Canada over Canada’s baseless allegations in opposition to concerning the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Indian businesses have said that Canada didn’t take any motion regardless of being knowledgeable of Nijjar’s crimes. The Canadian authorities remains to be pushing the narrative that Nijjar was only a non secular chief regardless of being knowledgeable in regards to the felony instances of homicide and terrorist actions of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) terrorist Nijjar.
The Indian businesses stated that even after an Interpol Red Corner Notice (RCN) was issued in opposition to Nijjar in November 2014, Canada solely positioned him on the “no-fly list”. It is notable that Hardeep Singh Nijjar had entered Canada utilizing a solid passport.
Reportedly, the file ready by the Indian intelligence businesses talked about that Hardeep Singh Nijjar was an affiliate of terrorists belonging to the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF). The businesses stated that Nijjar was related to Gurdeep Singh alias Deepa Heranwala. Gurdeep Singh was concerned in additional than 200 killings within the late Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties.
According to the file, Nijjar fled to Canada in 1996 on a solid passport below the identify “Ravi Sharma” and labored as a truck driver and plumber. It provides that Nijjar was in touch with Pakistan-based KTF chief Jagtar Singh Tara and went to Pakistan in April 2012 below the guise of a Baisakhi jatha member. Tara radicalised him, and the Pakistan spy company Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) groomed him, with the previous offering him with weapons and explosives coaching in 2012 and 2013. According to the file, Tara despatched US-based Harjot Singh to Canada in 2013 to instruct Nijjar on how one can use a handheld GPS system.
The file talked about that Nijjar, after changing into KTF’s operations chief, started coaching, funding and operationalising the members of the Khalistani terror outfit.
After Jagtar Singh Tara was deported from Thailand to India in 2015, Hardeep Singh Nijjar took over as KTF’s operations chief. At this level, the Red Cross discover in opposition to him was issued.
It is notable that Nijjar’s preliminary bids to get political asylum in Canada have been denied twice. According to the file, Nijjar took over as the top of Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Surrey by threatening his personal cousin, the temple’s former president, Raghbir Singh Nijjar.
Furthermore, the file notes that Nijjar in 2015 offered arms coaching to Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal in British Columbia’s Mission Hills. He organised coaching camps to coach Dhaliwal about how one can use sniper rifles, AK-47 assault rifles and pistols. Dhaliwal arrived in Punjab to kill native Shiv Sena leaders and fan communal tensions, nevertheless, he was nabbed by Punjab police in June 2015.
According to the file, Nijjar and Arshdeep Singh Dalla alias Arsh Dalla skilled a module of 4 KTF members, who carried out the focused assassinations and kidnappings between 2020 and 2021. According to the report, three module members have been apprehended and disclosed the names of Nijjar and Dalla.
In September 2021, three KTF terrorists skilled by Nijjar and Dalla, Kanwarpal Singh, Kulwinder Singh and Kamalpreet Singh, hailing from Moga, have been concerned within the plot to kill SSP Harminder Singh Gill and two crime investigation company officers in Moga.
The file additionally listed a number of different felony actions of Nijjar. He had offered funds for getting Manohar Lal Arora and his son. In an assault in 2020, Manohar Lal Arora was shot lifeless, nevertheless, his son managed to flee.
According to the file, Nijjar was declared a terrorist by the Home Ministry on July 1, 2020, and the National Investigation Agency introduced a money reward of Rs 10 lakh on July 22, 2022. Despite that, the KTF head functioned with impunity in Canada.
Notably, the diplomatic relations between India and Canada took a flip for the more severe after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, 18th September 2023, accused the Union authorities of being behind the deadly capturing of needed Khalistan chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India, nevertheless, rejected the allegations levelled by the Trudeau administration, terming them “absurd” and “motivated”.