September 22, 2023 / 09:37 AM IST

India, Canada relations: Indian Diplomats in Canada have been spied on for intel, says report

Indian diplomats in Canada have been surveilled for intelligence, resulting in Justin Trudeau’s allegation of India’s involvement within the killing of a Sikh terrorist primarily based on data from a serious ally, a Canadian official accustomed to the matter instructed The Associated Press on September 21.

The communications concerned Indian officers and diplomats in Canada and a few of the intelligence was supplied by a member of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance, which incorporates the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, along with Canada.

This revelation comes as India-Canada ties have plunged following the Canadian Prime Minister’s claims of the Indian authorities’s hand within the killing of Nijjar’s in Surrey on June 18. Days after outrightly rejecting the claims as “absurd” and “motivated”, India has stopped processing visa functions and requested Canada to downsize its diplomatic workers within the nation, arguing that there ought to be parity in energy and rank equivalence within the mutual diplomatic presence.

New Delhi additionally requested Canada to clamp anti-India parts working from its soil and suspended visa companies for Canadians, as escalating tensions between the 2 nations over the killing of Nijjar pushed their ties to an all-time low.