India says Canada yet to provide evidence of its involvement in the killing of a separatist leader

By ASHOK SHARMA
Associated Press

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has Canada has shared no evidence to back its allegation that the Indian government was involved in last year’s slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, despite this week’s arrest of three Indian nationals in the crime. India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal also reiterated India’s longstanding allegation that Canada harbors Indian extremists. Three Indian nationals who had been living in Canada temporarily were arrested on Tuesday in the slaying last June of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had set off a diplomatic spat with India last September when he cited “credible allegations” of India’s involvement in the slaying of the Sikh separatist. India rejected the accusations.