Gurmalkiat Singh Kahlon
Vancouver, January 10
An Indian media agency published a news about the release on bail by the Canadian Supreme Court of four suspects Karan Brar, Amandeep Singh, Karnpreet Singh and Kamalpreet Singh who were arrested on the charges of killing the then president of Surrey Gurdwara Hardeep Singh Nijhar. C, which was published by many institutions relying on it. But this news has been proved to be a lie.
Freda, the spokesperson of the investigation team of the case, and Anne Seymour, the spokesperson of the British Columbia Attorney General’s Office of the Prosecutor, expressing surprise at the news, said that the four accused are still in prison under police judicial custody and a court in Canada has ordered them to be extradited. No bail given. Seymour said that this homicide case number 86086-1 is assigned to the British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster for further hearing, where the first hearing will be held next month (February 11).
It may be mentioned that the news agency referred to the court’s comment that the court granted bail as the prosecution could not present solid evidence against the accused. Which is being seen as an attempt to mislead people about Canadian law. It has been learned from the sources that a few days ago, acting on the intelligence reports, the police have transferred Mashkook from the Surrey jail to a high security jail. According to a source closely familiar with the matter, the place has been changed after it was found that the accused was allegedly planning to escape from the jail.
It is to be noted that in 2016, Nijhar was unanimously elected as the President of the Sari Gurdwara Sahib Management Committee. Hardeep Singh Nijhar (45), who came to Canada from the nearby village of Phillaur and became a permanent resident of Canada as a refugee, after being nominated in the murder case of a priest in Jalandhar district in 2018, the police declared him a supporter of Khalistan and put five bullets on his head. A reward of Rs.
On 18 June 2023, some youths shot Nijhar in the Gurdwara parking lot and escaped. The police investigation team identified the accused through CCTV camera footage and three of them were arrested from Edmonton and one from Brampton.
Three months after the murder, in September, the Prime Minister of Canada soured its diplomatic relations with India by saying in Parliament that Indian agencies were involved in the murder. After which both the countries sent back expressing doubts on each other’s diplomatic staff. Since then, the strained India-Canada relations have not improved much.