While the Sikh community of British Columbia marks the two-year birthday of the murder of the president of Gurdwara, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the alleged role of a high-level Indian gang is put under the spotlight.
Four Indian nationals have been charged And await the trial, but the brains behind the murder remain free – a fact that attracted Fury during a demonstration in Vancouver on Wednesday.
“India should not be able to make an impunity by killing Canadians on Canadian soil,” said Moninder Singh with the Sikh Canada Federation.
Just a day after Canada and India agreed to restore diplomatic links While Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed his Indian counterpart Narenda Modi for the G7, the Canada spy agency has published a report Directly attach the Indian State to the organized crime unions in Canada.
The annual Canadian Security Intelligence Service report quotes RCMP evidence connecting Indian government agents to “criminal networks to sow violent activities in South Asian communities in Canada”.
This adds that the alleged role of India in the murder of Nijjar “indicates a significant escalation in the efforts of repression of India”.
Get daily national news
Get the best news of the day, the titles of political, economic and current affairs, delivered in your reception box once a day.
National security experts highlight the involvement of the Gang Lawrence Bishnoi.
“They must find people to carry out these dirty acts,” said Daniel Stanton, director of the National Security Program at the University of Ottawa University Institute.
Using gangsters, he added, allows the government “a little denial”.
“Thanks to proxies, in this case the Bishnoy gang, they essentially created a wave of crime across Canada, attributing it to a particular community,” he said.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) describes the group as a criminal gang led by Lawrence Bisnoi, whose lawyer says he disputes more than 40 cases accusing him of crimes such as murder and extortion.
Bishnoi himself, a graduate in Punjab law, has been in prison for more than a decade. NIA alleys that he directs his prisons union in different states and abroad through a network of partners.
The World Organization Sikh said that Bishnoi recently appeared in the Indian press “declaring himself Indian nationalist” and that he also swore to oppose the Khalistan, the independent homeland of the state of Punjab in India sought by certain Sikhs activists, including Nijjar.
Sources have told Global News that the gang bienoi is supposed to be linked to the murder of Nijjar.
The World Organization Sikh claims that the gang has also taken the credit The recent murder of a businessman from Mississauga, Ontario, who resisted attempts at extortion.
“We are considering a real crisis here in Canada, businessmen across Canada being extorted by Indian gangs, and the problem here is that it is not only Indian gangs,” said Balpreet Singh with World Organization Sikh.
“The problem here is that the head of this gang is in prison in the past 10 years. It therefore seems that this gang is used by the government of India to orchestrate violence and terror here in Canada again. ”
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister of British Columbia, David Eby, called the federal government to Designate the Bishnoi gang as a terrorist organization.
The Sikhs groups say it’s a good start, but not enough.
They want a public inquiry into the transnational repression of India, so that Canada ends any information sharing with India and the consequences for anyone involved in international crime – whatever their position in government.
“The tentacles go to the summit,” said Balpreet Singh.
“Thus, targeted sanctions against members of the Indian government, which are known to be linked to this gang.”
– With files from Aaron Mcadre, Stewart Bell, Jeff Semple and Andrew Russel and Reuters of Global
& Copy 2025 Global News, A Division of Corus Entertainment Inc.