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More layers of India's alleged covert operation likely to be exposed as RCMP probe continues: sources

More layers of India's alleged covert operation likely to be exposed as RCMP probe continues: sources

CBC
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 10:27 AM GMT

The six senior diplomats Ottawa has ordered out of the country may not be the last Indian officials to be expelled as Canadian police investigate what they allege is the involvement of agents of the Indian government in "widespread violence" here, sources close to the investigation have told CBC News.

Those sources say a support network for India's clandestine operations remains largely in place in Canada, although they think it's likely that some members of that network will now depart voluntarily — and quietly — rather than risk arrest.

Sources have described India's operation in Canada as multi-layered and multi-faceted, involving many people playing different roles — some willingly, some under pressure from Indian diplomats and their proxies.

Indian diplomats both engaged in covert activities themselves and recruited others to help them, sources allege.

Since 1955, India has required all nationals who become citizens of foreign countries to surrender their Indian citizenship. That means many first-, second- and third-generation Indo-Canadians require what is called an OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) visa in order to visit India.

Indian diplomats and consular officials used their discretion to grant or withhold such visas to pressure people to conduct surveillance or become informants, sources told CBC News.

One person close to the investigation described the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar — the Canadian Sikh activist who was killed in Surrey, B.C. last year — as "only a small part" of a much larger operation, although it was both a serious crime and an affront to Canadian sovereignty.

Sources told CBC News they believe one key goal of the Indian government operation is to convince Indo-Canadians that violence and lawlessness is widespread in Canada. The idea, they said, is to bolster the Indian government's claim that Canada has put Indo-Canadians in danger by failing for decades to crack down on Sikh separatists and criminal activity.

Sources close to the investigation allege individuals with links to the Indian government have made extortion demands of Indo-Canadians for sums so exorbitant, they appear to be intended merely to offer cover for subsequent acts of violence, including drive-by shootings and arson.

While the RCMP's investigation of India's alleged covert operations in Canada began before Nijjar was killed, it received greater priority and more resources after the Sikh leader was gunned down in his pickup truck at a parking lot exit in the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, B.C. on June 18, 2023.

The Mounties already suspected Indian government involvement in a murder the previous year, and quickly found links between the Nijjar case and Indian government officials, sources said.

They said that electronic intercepts of communications among Indian government and intelligence officials in India, and Indian diplomats in Canada, soon confirmed that the killing had been directed from senior levels of the Indian government.

Sources close to the investigation, and Canadian government sources, have told CBC News they don't believe that such a risky operation — one involving not only India's intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), but also its foreign service — would proceed without approval from the very top of India's government.

When the U.S. government accused an Indian government employee of involvement in a murder plot targeting U.S.-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City, India responded by claiming that rogue agents came up with the scheme on their own.

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