Bhubaneswar:
India will wait for Canadian police to share information about the three Indian men the country has arrested and charged in the killing of a Khalistani terrorist last year, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said on Saturday.
Canadian police charged the three on Friday with the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and said they were investigating whether the suspects had links to the Indian government.
Mr Jaishankar said he had seen news of the arrests and said the suspects “are apparently Indians with some gang background… we will have to wait for the police to tell us.”
“But, as I said, one of our concerns that we have expressed to them is that they have allowed organized crime from India, and particularly from Punjab, to operate in Canada,” Mr. Jaishankar said.
Sanjay Verma, India's high commissioner to Canada, said it hopes to get regular updates from Canadian authorities on the three arrested Indians.
“I understand that the arrests were made as a result of investigations conducted by the relevant Canadian law enforcement agencies. This matter is internal to Canada and therefore we have no comment in this regard,” Mr Verma added.
The trio, all Indian nationals, were arrested in the Alberta city of Edmonton on Friday, police said.
Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in June outside a gurdwara in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb with a large Sikh population. A few months later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged that the Indian government was involved, leading to a diplomatic crisis with New Delhi.