Tribune News Service

Ajay Banerjee

New Delhi, September 20

The long-pending citizenship software of Hardeep Singh Nijjar was okayed by Canada inside months after a Red-Corner Notice (RCN) was issued towards him.

Acting on an RCN, which is issued by means of Interpol, a rustic has to arrest the accused and deport her or him. However, Canada did the precise reverse, mentioned an official.

Red-corner discover issued 9 years in the past

• 1st Red-Corner Notice towards Nijjar in 2014, second in 2016
• Got citizenship in 2015, mentioned a Canadian minister on Tuesday
• On Wednesday, he mentioned Nijjar obtained it in 2007, a declare doubted by Indian businesses

During talks with Canada, the Indian Government had talked about how the citizenship software of Nijjar was authorized by Canada months after the primary RCN was issued on November 14, 2014.

The first RCN was issued after a case (FIR No. 159) was registered towards Nijjar on the Kotwali police station, Patiala, by the Punjab Police. The second RCN was issued in FIR No. 19 lodged on the Nurpur police station, Ropar, in 2016.

In a submit on ‘X’ on Tuesday evening, Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller mentioned: “I can confirm that Nijjar became a Canadian citizen on March 3, 2015. I hope this dispels the baseless rumours that he was not a Canadian.” On Wednesday, nevertheless, Miller posted, “Nijjar became a Canadian citizen on May 25, 2007, earlier than I stated. The error in dates is my responsibility to assume.” Indian businesses have doubted Miller’s newest declare. The difficulty of citizenship had already been flagged to Canada and in addition to the Interpol.

The Indian facet had additionally requested Ottawa how Nijjar stored on residing in Canada from 1997 to 2015. Nijjar arrived at Toronto aboard a flight on February 10, 1997, utilizing a fraudulent passport issued within the identify of ‘Ravi Sharma’. Nijjar had shorn his hair after a raid in 1996 at his uncle’s home in UP the place he was hiding after the Punjab Police had detained him in 1995.

Nijjar gave an affidavit, together with a medical document of alleged torture in India, in June 1998 to Canada in search of refuge. His plea was rejected by the Canadian authorities.

On November 21, 1998, lower than two weeks after Nijjar’s declare was rejected, he married a girl who sponsored him. Immigration officers famous his spouse had arrived in Canada in 1997, “sponsored by a different husband”.

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