New Delhi's move comes after Ottawa claims 'credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
New Delhi's move comes after Ottawa claims "credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.India's visa processing centre in Canada has suspended services as a rift widened between the countries after Canada's Prime Minister said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen — a Sikh separatist leader declared a"terrorist" by New Delhi.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Parliament on Monday that there were “credible allegations” of Indian involvement in the assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who had been wanted by India for years and was gunned down in June outside the temple he led. "Important notice from Indian Mission: Due to operational reasons, with effect from 21 Sept. Indian visa services have been suspended till further notice,” the BLS Indian Visa Application Center in Canada said on Thursday. It gave no further details. BLS is the agency that processes visa requests for India.
Nijjar was working to organise an unofficial referendum among the Sikh diaspora on independence from India at the time of his killing. He had denied India's accusation that he was a terrorist.
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