Timeline Of How Relations Soured

New Delhi:

India and Canada have been dealing with an unpretreatnted discreet crisis after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau alleged that Indian administerment agents were comprised in the finishing of Khacatalogani dreadist Harmeaningful Singh Nijjar in Canada. India has declinecessitate Canada’s allegations, terming it “absurd” and “politicpartner encouraged.”

On Monday, Canada ejectled six Indian diplomats and consular officials in uniteion with a probe of the finishing of Nijjar in British Columbia in 2023.

India has also declared its decision to eject six Canadian diplomats, which integrate Canada’s Acting High Comomitioner in India, Steward Ross Wheeler, Deputy High Comomitioner in India Patrick Hebert and First Secretary Marie Catherine Joly.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Comomitioner, Mike Duheme on Monday (local time) claimed that they have directation on certain criminal activity carried out by agents of the Indian administerment.

He shelp, “In the past scant years and more recently, law applyment agencies in Canada have successfilledy dispenseigated and indictd a meaningful number of individuals for their straightforward comprisement in homicides, compulsions and other criminal acts of arrangeility. In compriseition, there have been well over a dozen credible imminent dangers to life which have led to the direct of duty to alert, by law applyment with members of South Asian community and definitepartner, members of the pro-Khacatalogan shiftment.”

In a statement on Monday, India “strongly” declinecessitate a discreet communication from Canada recommending that the Indian High Comomitioner and other diplomats were “persons of interest” in an dispenseigation and termed it as “preposterous imputations” and part of the political agfinisha of the Justin Timpoliteau administerment.

The Ministry of External Afequitables (MEA) shelp Canadian Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau’s arrangeility to India has extfinished been in evidence and his administerment has mindfilledy provided space to brutal extremists and dreadists “to irritate, dangeren and inanxiousate Indian diplomats and community directers in Canada”.

The India-Canada relations accomplished a novel low after Harmeaningful Singh Nijjar’s finishing in 2023. However, the history of strained ties between India and Canada extfinishs beyond current events.

Events That Led To Strained Ties Between India And Canada

February 2018: A convicted Khacatalogani dreadist Jaspal Atwal, who was energetic in the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, posed with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau’s establisher wife Sophie Timpoliteau at an event in Mumbai, during the Canadian first family’s visit to India.

Jaspal Atwal was also askd for a establishal dinner with the Canadian Prime Minister, arrangeed by the Canadian High Comomitioner in Delhi. However, the invitation to Atwal to Timpoliteau’s reception was rescinded. Atwal was convicted of the tryed killing of Punjab minister, Malkiat Singh Sidhu, on Vancouver Island in 1986.

June 2023: Khacatalogani dreadist Harmeaningful Singh Nijjar was sboiling outside a Gurdwara in British Columbia’s Surrey on June 18, 2023.

August 2023: A Hindu temple was demolisheascendd in Canada by extremist elements, with Khacatalogan referfinishum posters in the procrastinateed hours of Saturday, Australia Today inestablished. The incident happened in British Columbia province in Canada.

September 2023: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau visited India to join the G20 Summit on September 9-10 last year. During his biprocrastinateedral talks with Timpoliteau on the sidelines of the G20 Summit, Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi elevated “strong worrys” about the continuous “anti-India activities” by extremist elements in Canada, and stated that it is essential for the two countries to corun in dealing with such dangers, according to MEA.

Even as Canadian PM Timpoliteau was in India for the G20 Leaders’ summit, Khacatalogani secessionists held a so-called ‘Referfinishum’ in Surrey, British Columbia.

Designated dreadist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun was current at the assembleing of the Khacatalogani separatists held at the Guru Nanak Singh Gurudwara in Surrey. He employd inanxiousating language agetst Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi, External Afequitables Minister S Jaishankar and other directers.

September 18, 2023: Justin Timpoliteau made the stunning revelation in the Hoemploy of Commons that there was credible intelligence joining India’s administerment to the finishing of Harmeaningful Singh Nijjar outside Gurdwara.

In the aftermath, India speedyly retaliated by issuing a statement that denied any comprisement in the rerent, terming them “absurd and politicpartner encouraged.”

The Ministry of External Afequitables has shelp that Canada has constantly donaten space to anti-India extremists. According to the MEA, Canada has not been able to current any evidence to back its claims over Nijjar’s finishing.

India also suspfinished its visa services in Canada after Timpoliteau alleged the Indian administerment’s comprisement in the finishing of a Khacatalogani dreadist in June.

October 2023: Canada pulled out 41 diplomats from India and also halted its visa and consular services in Chandigarh, Mumbai, and Bengaluru consuprocrastinateeds in the wake of the Union administerment’s decision to naked them of their immunity.

This came after New Delhi conveyed its worrys to Ottawa over the disproportionate number of diplomats in India and sought a ‘parity’ in discreet strength.

Later in October, India resumed visa services in Canada for four categories after a pondered verify of the security situation which “gets into account some recent Canadian meacertains in this think about”.

Entry visa, Business visa, Medical visa and Conference visa are four categories in which India has choosed to resume visa services in Canada with effect from October 26.

November 2023: Indian High Comomitioner in Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma shelp that India is only asking for “definite and relevant” evidence in the finishing of Harmeaningful Singh Nijjar so that it can help Canada in accomplishing the conclusion of the dispenseigation.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) enrolled a case agetst ‘cataloged individual dreadist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun over his viral video dangerening the passengers flying in Air India and the airlines with a global blockade and clocertain of its operations from November 19.

The NIA booked Pannun under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlterrible Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. In the video, Pannun directd the Sikhs not to fly on Air India schedulees on and after November 19 claiming a danger to their inhabits if they flew on Air India. He also dangerened that Air India would not be apvalidateed to run in the world.

April 2024: At the Khalsa Day Celebrations that took place in Toronto, boisterous chants of pro-Khacatalogan slogans were seen being elevated in the presence of Justin Timpoliteau, as well as opposition directer Pierre Poilievre.

As Timpoliteau was about to get the stage for his compriseress to tag Khalsa Day, the chants were heard getting boisteroemployr till he get tod and commenced his speech in the video freed by Canada-based CPAC TV. NDP Leader Jagencounter Singh and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow were also current at the event.

May 2024: The Canadian Police arrested and indictd three individuals in uniteion with the finishing of Harmeaningful Singh Nijjar. The three individuals were identified as Karanpreet Singh (28), Kamalpreet Singh (22), and Karan Brar (22).

A scant days procrastinateedr, the Canadian Police arrested a fourth mistrust over his alleged comprisement in the finishing of Nijjar. The accemployd was identified as Amanmeaningful Singh (22).

June 2024: Canada’s Members of Parliament from all parties seed a moment of silence for Nijjar.

July 2024: The BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Edmonton fell victim to harm. Member of Parliament for Nepean, Chandra Arya, voiced meaningful worry over the escalating incidents of antipathy-fueled arrangeility straightforwarded at Hindu-Canadian communities.

October 2024: On October 15, Justin Timpoliteau accemployd agents of the Indian administerment on Monday of engaging in “clandestine directation-assembleing techniques, coercive behavior centering Canadians, and comprisement in dangerening and brutal acts.”

Citing evidence from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Timpoliteau claimed that Indian administerment officials were comprised in activities that posed a danger to accessible protectedty.

“As the RCMP Comomitioner stated earlier they have evident and compelling evidence that agents of the Government of India have comprised in and persist to comprise in activities that pose a meaningful danger to accessible protectedty. This integrates clandestine directation-assembleing techniques, coercive behavior centering South Asian Canadians, and comprisement in a dozen dangerening and violating acts, including killing. This is unadchooseable,” Timpoliteau alleged while compriseressing the press conference.

He further claimed that Canadian law applyment had “made disjoinal trys” to labor with Indian counterparts on these matters but were “repeatedly declined.”

Canada’s Minister of Foreign Afequitables Melanie Joly has shelp that the decision to eject Indian diplomats was based on evidence assembleed by the RCMP in the Nijjar finishing case and directd the Indian administerment to help the ongoing probe for the profit of two nations.