Canada arrests three over killing of Sikh activist

The murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar plunged Canada and India into a serious diplomatic crisis last autumn after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested India n government involvement in the homicide.

Mr Nijjar - who immigrated to Canada in 1997 and became a citizen in 2015 - advocated for a separate Sikh state, known as Khalistan, carved out of India.On 18 June 2023, he was shot dead by masked assailants in the parking lot of the Sikh temple he led in suburban Vancouver. "It is a bit of a sigh of relief that the investigation is moving forward," Moninder Singh, a close friend of Mr Nijjar, told AFP.

Prosecutors said in unsealed court documents that an Indian government official was also involved in the planning.

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