New Delhi: India’s excessive fee in Ottawa on Thursday urged the Canadian authorities to make sure the protection of Indian nationals, expressing that it was “shocked and saddened by the senseless killing of an Indian Youth in Truro”.

The assertion pertains to a case of alleged hate crime that has been reported within the Canadian city of Truro in central Nova Scotia whereby a 23-year-old Sikh man recognized as Prabhjot Singh Katri misplaced his life.

Prabhjot Singh, who had come to Canada from Punjab in 2017 to review, was killed within the early hours of September 5 at an residence constructing in Truro, information company IANS reported.

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Truro police chief Dave MacNeil knowledgeable that officers responded to 494 Robie St. round 2 a.m. that morning, the place they discovered Singh with life-threatening accidents.

He was then taken to hospital in Colchester, the place he later succumbed to the accidents.

According to a CBC Canada report, police are treating the dying as a murder. A person was arrested in reference to the homicide however he was later launched.

On the opposite hand, Singh’s household and pals together with others within the Indian-Canadian neighborhood, concern that this was a hate crime as nothing was robbed from him, the report acknowledged.

The sufferer’s cousin, Maninder Singh, revealed that he was working two jobs to financially assist his household in India.

“He was so nice. We didn’t imagine that this could happen,” he stated, as quoted by IANS.

Singh had accomplished his research and was at present on a piece visa. He was attempting to safe everlasting residency in Canada, the company reported.

In its assertion, the Indian excessive fee urged the Canadian authorities to “ensure the safety of all Indian nationals especially the Indian students in Canada from racially motivated crimes”.