India on Thursday said Canada was requested to arrest members of Lawrence Bishnoi gang but it didn’t act on its “core concerns”.
The Bishnoi gang is quite notorious in India because of several high-profile murders.
Interacting with the media persons in New Delhi on Thursday during his weekly meeting with the press, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We had shared some requests with the Canadian side for the arrest of those from Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang. They haven’t taken any action on our core concerns. There is a political motive also behind this.”
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Referring to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s admission, wherein he acknowledging that he had no “hard evidentiary proof” and had only intelligence when Canada alleged the involvement of Indian government agents in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, the MEA spokesperson reiterated that Canada hasn’t shared any evidence with New Delhi proving their allegation.
“We have made our position very clear on this particular matter. You would have seen that several press releases have been issued in the last two days putting out our position, and we are very clear that since September of 2023, the Canadian government has not shared any shred of information with us. Yesterday, again, after the public inquiry, and 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 decade the value as regards are stands…we reject false imputations against our diplomats,” Jaiswal told journalists.
Canada last week told India that the latter’s senior diplomats were “persons of interest” in the Nijjar murder case.
On Wednesday, Trudeau admitted that Canada had only intelligence and not hard evidence, on India’s alleged involvement in Nijjar’s killing.
“What we have heard today only confirms what we have been saying consistently all along – Canada has presented us no evidence whatsoever in support of the serious allegations that it has chosen to level against India and Indian diplomats,” Jaiswal added.