Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing | Not ruling out probe if evidence is provided, says Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said that the government is open to the idea of investigation into the killing of Canadian citizen and Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said that the government is open to the idea of investigation into the killing of Canadian citizen and Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said agents of the Indian government were behind the killing of Nijjar in British Columbia earlier this year.

Mr. Jaishankar was speaking at the Royal Overseas League in London on Wednesday evening, at an event organised by a U.K. government think tank, Wilton Park, and the Indian High Commission.

“We are not ruling out an investigation and looking at anything which they may have to offer,” Mr. Jaishankar told his interviewer, former Editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber .

The Minister emphasised that the government had told the Canadian government that it would consider any evidence that was shared by them. He said he continues to articulate this to his Canadian counterpart (Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly).

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Mr. Jaishankar categorially denied that he had seen any evidence, that implicated India in the killing of Nijjar.

Asked if he had seen any “indirect or direct” evidence linking the Government of India to the killing, he said “no”.