Police make arrests in killing of B.C. Sikh activist, source confirms
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Police have made arrests in the killing of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a senior government source has confirmed to CTV News.
Police have made arrests in the killing of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a senior government source has confirmed to CTV News.
The RCMP are expected to announce the arrests later Friday.
Nijjar, 45, was gunned down outside his gurdwara in Surrey, B.C. on June 18, 2023.
The killing sparked a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that intelligence services were investigating information about a potential link between India's government and the killing.
Nijjar was the president of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara where he was shot dead in broad daylight by two masked gunmen.
As a vocal supporter of the Khalistan movement, which advocates for a separate Sikh homeland in India's Punjab province, he was a wanted man in India, where authorities labelled him a terrorist in 2020.
At the time of his death, he was organizing an unofficial referendum about Khalistan among the Sikh diaspora in B.C. with the organization Sikhs For Justice.
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