{"id":36032,"date":"2024-05-12T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36032"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T11:09:57","slug":"canada-arrests-fourth-indian-national-in-murder-of-sikh-activist-nijjar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/canada-arrests-fourth-indian-national-in-murder-of-sikh-activist-nijjar\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada arrests fourth Indian national in murder of Sikh activist Nijjar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">TORONTO: A fourth person has been arrested and charged by Canadian police on Saturday in the murder of Sikh separatist leader <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/canada-says-it-suspects-india-involved-in-sikh-leader-murder\/\">Hardeep Singh Nijjar<\/a> last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced that Amandeep Singh, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">commit murder<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in Nijjar&#8217;s killing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amandeep Singh, an Indian national who resided in Brampton, Surrey, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Abbotsford, was already in custody for unrelated firearms charges out of Peel, Ontario, IHIT said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Canadian police arrested and charged <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/canada-police-charge-three-with-murder-of-sikh-leader-nijjar\/\">three Indian nationals<\/a> from the city of Edmonton and said they were probing whether the men had ties to the Indian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/us-media-names-raw-officers-name-in-pannuns-assassination-attempt\/\">US media names Raw officer&#8217;s name in Pannun\u2019s assassination attempt<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The killing of <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nijjar <\/span>sparked a diplomatic strain between Ottawa and New Delhi when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked Indian intelligence to the killing.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span class=\"NA6bn ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Hardeep Singh <\/span><\/span>Nijjar<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, 45, was shot dead last June outside a Sikh temple in a Vancouver <span class=\"NA6bn ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">suburb<\/span><\/span>. A few months later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited what he said was evidence of potential Indian government involvement, prompting a diplomatic <span class=\"NA6bn ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">row <\/span><\/span>with New Delhi<\/span><span class=\"NA6bn ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">. However, the Indian government strongly denied the allegation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Najjar<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0was a Canadian citizen campaigning for the creation of Khalistan, an independent Sikh homeland carved out of India. The presence of Sikh separatist groups in Canada has long frustrated New Delhi, which had labeled Nijjar a &#8220;terrorist&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO: A fourth person has been arrested and charged by Canadian police on Saturday in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced that Amandeep Singh, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder\u00a0in Nijjar&#8217;s killing. Amandeep Singh, an Indian national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16787,16788,16789],"class_list":["post-36032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-hardeep-singh-nijjar-murder","tag-india-involved-in-hardeep-singh-nijjar","tag-indian-arrested-in-nijjar-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}