India says it has 26 extradition requests pending with Canada

India had astatine slightest 26 extradition requests pending with Canada, the South Asian nation’s overseas ministry said connected Thursday, amid a diplomatic enactment betwixt the 2 countries.

“These are implicit the past decennary oregon more,” India’s overseas ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters during a play media briefing.

Bilateral relations between the 2 nations have plunged to a caller debased this week aft Ottawa linked India to the execution of a Sikh separatist person successful Canada.

In tit-for-tat moves, both countries expelled each others’ diplomats on Monday. Ottawa said it was expelling six Indian diplomats and consular officials “in narration to a targeted run against Canadian citizens by agents linked to the authorities of India.”

The authorities acted “to disrupt the concatenation of operations that spell from Indian diplomats present successful Canada to transgression organizations, to nonstop convulsive impacts connected Canadians close crossed this country,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

Global News has learned agents moving retired of India’s precocious committee successful Ottawa and consulates successful Vancouver and Toronto were down dozens of convulsive crimes crossed Canada that targeted opponents of the Narendra Modi government.

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Although connected insubstantial they held diplomatic and consular positions, the Indian agents played cardinal roles successful a question of shootings, killings, threats, arsons and extortions successful Canada, according to elder sources acquainted with the matter.

The victims were mostly supporters of the Khalistan movement, which seeks independency for India’s Sikh-majority Punjab region. But others were simply rivals of the government, the sources said.

The revelations came arsenic Canadian instrumentality enforcement continues to probe the sidesplitting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., wherever the killers were allegedly tied to Indian authorities agents.

— with files from Global News 

(Reporting by Krishn Kaushik, penning by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)