By HT News Desk
Canada’s deputy foreign minister David Morrison on Tuesday confirmed that he had told The Washington Post that Union home minister Amit Shah had allegedly authorised a wave of violence against Sikh separatists on Canadian soil, Reuters reported.
The Indian government has dismissed Canada’s prior accusations as baseless, denying any involvement.
David Morrison joined other senior officials testifying before members of Parliament on the public safety and national security committee. MPs on the committee asked questions about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s allegation two weeks ago that agents of the Indian government were complicit in widespread crimes in Canada.
The Washington Post had earlier claimed that Canadian security agencies had collected evidence that “a senior official in India” had “authorized the intelligence-gathering missions and attacks on Sikh separatists” in Canada. The report went on to say that a Canadian source identified Amit Shah as being the Indian official in question.
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