A day after Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau levelled ‘allegations’ on India being linked to the killing of Khalistan Tiger Force Chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Trudeau said on Tuesday that Ottawa wants New Delhi to address the issue properly, CBC news reported.
Trudeau said that Canada is not trying to provoke India by any means. “We are not looking to provoke or escalate. We are simply laying out the facts as we understand them,” the Canadian Prime Minister told reporters, according to CBC news.
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“The government of India needs to take this matter with the utmost seriousness. We are doing that,” he said.
“As for Canada, I said yesterday…we are going to remain calm, we are going to remain grounded in our democratic principles and values…. and we are going to follow the evidence and make sure the work is done…,” he added.
CBC News is a Canada-based media company, a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Najjar, who was wanted in India, was gunned down outside a Gurdwara, in a parking area in Canada’s Surrey, British Columbia on June 18.
Hailing from Bharsinghpur village in Punjab’s Jalandhar, Nijjar was based in Surrey and had been declared “absconder” by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
