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Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a US-based Khalistani group, has threatened to "siege" the Indian Consulate successful Vancouver, Canada, aft New Delhi and Ottawa person resumed diplomatic ties.
The separatist outfit announced it would instrumentality implicit the consulate connected Thursday, September 18, and urged Indians and Indo-Canadians to enactment distant from the premises.The radical besides released a poster with the representation of the caller Indian precocious commissioner, Dinish Patnaik, showing a people connected his face.SFJ said its projected "siege" of the Indian Consulate successful Vancouver would beryllium a mode to request "accountability" for what it described arsenic "espionage and intimidation connected Canadian soil."Earlier this month, a Canadian authorities study acknowledged the beingness of Khalistani panic groups successful the country.India and Canada had precocious named their caller precocious commissioners aft an knowing was reached betwixt Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney during Modi's sojourn to Canada for the G7 acme successful June.Relations betwixt the 2 countries person been tense since 2023, erstwhile past Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his authorities had "credible allegations" linking Indian agents to the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar successful Surrey, British Columbia.
Nijjar, who was declared a violent by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA), was changeable dormant extracurricular a gurdwara connected June 18, 2023. India rejected Trudeau’s claims, calling them "absurd" and "motivated," and accused Canada of letting extremist and anti-India activities turn unchecked.