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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ltlee1@hotmail.com (ltlee1) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: Expelled Indian high commissioner denies involvement in criminal activity in Can Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:12:43 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <7b55188c24bd01dee93cbe7e11d0b409@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3047083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="pxsmGrN7Y7mF0hfJcY//7F6kiWqDRq/tZN4FOOcim3s"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 0099cdd7dc5bd7b25c488bf8bcfab81a117b2ffc X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$gvtuNtH1NuX6f6d5ewch..eI1GfLERj5jOlMgJcXjKmhvyGiIxu7G Bytes: 3431 Lines: 47 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-expelled-indian-high-commissioner-denies-involvement-in-criminal/ "Canadian officials have yet to present any evidence to support their allegations that Indian agents are behind a vast network of violence and intimidation in Canada, the outgoing high commissioner of India says. In an interview airing on CTV News one week after the RCMP went public with its investigation, Sanjay Kumar Verma denied any connection between the Indian government and the slaying last year of a Sikh separatist activist in British Columbia. “I entirely refute this connection,” he said. When asked if he was involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Mr. Verma said, “Nothing at all, politically motivated, no evidence presented.” Mr. Verma is one of six Indian diplomats who have been ejected from Canada after the RCMP deemed them “persons of interest” in an investigation into what the force describes as a campaign of alleged violence, extortion and intimidation directed at the Sikh diaspora by agents of Narendra Modi’s Indian government. He said repeatedly throughout the interview that Canada had offered no evidence to back up any of its claims about Indian officials being involved in criminal activities in Canada. “Unfortunately, not a shred of evidence has been shared with us,” he told Vassy Kapelos, host of CTV’s Question Period, in the interview. Commissioner Mike Duheme said last Monday the RCMP had “clear and compelling evidence” that Indian agents have engaged in, and continue to engage in, “activities that pose a significant threat to public safety.” Laying out the sequence of events that led to the highly unusual news conference, the RCMP said in a statement that Mark Flynn, the deputy commissioner of federal policing, “made attempts to meet with his Indian law enforcement counterparts to discuss violent extremism occurring in Canada and India, and present evidence pertaining to agents of the Government of India’s involvement in serious criminal activity in Canada.” Those attempts were “unsuccessful,” the RCMP said, and so the evidence was “presented directly to Government of India officials.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government of India and Indian law enforcement have “repeatedly refused” to work with their Canadian counterparts, despite the “clear and compelling evidence” the RCMP has shared with Indian officials."