April 13 (Reuters) – Britain ought to take motion after a violent incident throughout protests exterior India’s embassy in London final month, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi instructed British counterpart Rishi Sunak on Thursday.

New Delhi has been upset about protests and vandalism by Sikh separatists – who search an impartial Sikh homeland referred to as Khalistan – exterior the Indian High Commission in London and elsewhere within the U.S. and Canada.

In a phone dialog with Sunak, Modi referred to as for “strong action against anti-India elements” by the British authorities following the incident, Modi’s workplace stated in an announcement.

Sunak condemned the incident as “unacceptable violence”, his Downing Street workplace stated in a readout of the decision.

“He stressed that extremism had no place in the UK and updated on the steps being taken to ensure the security of Indian High Commission staff,” Sunak’s workplace added.

UK-India bilateral ties grew to become tense final month when protesters in London with Khalistan banners reportedly eliminated an Indian flag from the balcony of the High Commission throughout a protest through which the constructing’s home windows had been additionally damaged.

British overseas minister James Cleverly had condemned the violence final month however Thursday’s name was the primary official dialogue between Modi and Sunak concerning the incident.

Both sides additionally stated Modi and Sunak agreed on needing to hurry up negotiations for a free commerce settlement between Britain and India, which a British newspaper report stated this week had stalled over the incident.

The two leaders are additionally on account of meet on the G7 summit in Japan subsequent month and the G20 in India later this 12 months.

The demonstration exterior the Indian High Commission was staged to denounce recent police action within the Sikh-majority Indian state of Punjab in opposition to a pro-Khalistan Sikh preacher.

The demand for Khalistan, which led to violence that killed tens of hundreds of individuals within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, has revived in sections of the Sikh inhabitants in India and abroad.

Indian officers conveyed issues over pro-Khalistan teams to British counterparts throughout a gathering of inside ministry officers from each nations in New Delhi on Wednesday.

In the assembly, the Indian facet requested higher cooperation with Britain to sort out “the misuse of UK’s asylum status by the Pro-Khalistani elements to aid and abet terrorist activities in India and with UK,” the Indian authorities stated.

Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru, Editing by William Maclean

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