Agencies
TORONTO: A friend of Khalistani militant Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down in the parking lot of a gurdwara in Surrey in British Columbia on June 18, says the slain leader was being tracked before his assassination.
CTV has quoted Moninder Singh, a spokesperson for the Gurdwaras BC Council.
as saying, “A couple of weeks before his death, he had come home to say there was a tracking device on the bottom wheel well of his vehicle.”
He said, ”When he was at a mechanic shop, it was raised up and they found it.”
Recalling the events of the day Nijjar was killed in the parking lot of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, Mohinder Singh said, “The first call was made to me from the person that opened the door and saw him inside and called me and told me to get here right away, that he had been shot.”
He said video footage from the area captured the suspects’ car as “it followed him (Nijjar) through the parking lot, cut him off through the back exit where he was going to exit out and slowed down and led him to almost a stop to where shooters emerged to shoot him. It was very well coordinated.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week spoke in the House of Commons about India’s alleged involvement in the killing of the separatist leader who was spearheading the Khalistani campaign in Canada.
India denied the allegation, accusing Canada of harbouring terrorists on its soil.
In a tit-for-tat, Canada and India expelled one diplomat from each country.
