India-Canada Row: Amid the strained ties with Canada, India on Thursday revealed that there are 26 extradition requests pending with the north american nation since over a decade. The requests embody these of some hardcore Khalistani extremists and criminals wished by India.
Throughout a weekly briefing on Thursday, Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned that in addition to these requests, there are a number of provisional arrest requests that are additionally pending with the Canadian facet of a number of criminals.
“There are 26 extradition requests pending with the Canadian facet. These are over the past decade or extra. Together with it, there are a number of provisional arrest requests that are additionally pending with the Canadian facet of a number of criminals. A number of the notable ones, who’ve been charged with terror and associated crimes, are Gurjeet Singh, Gurjinder Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Lakhbir Singh Landa and Arshdeep Singh Gill. We now have shared the security-related info with the Canadian authorities,” he mentioned.
It’s pertinent to say that the extradition requests pending with Canada embody these of Lawrence Bishnoi gang, with the Indian authorities requesting the Justin Trudeau authorities to arrest them or take due motion towards them as per the legislation.
“We had shared some requests with the Canadian facet for the arrest of these from Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang. They haven’t taken any motion on our core issues. There’s a political motive additionally behind this,” Jaiswal mentioned.
“Up to now no motion has been taken by the Canadian facet on our requests. That is very critical. Additionally we discover it very unusual that the folks we requested to be deported, on whom we requested motion to be taken, we’re being informed – the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is blaming the Indian facet – that these individuals are committing crimes in Canada for which India is to be blamed. So, this can be a contradiction which we do not perceive,” the MEA spokesperson additional acknowledged.
In what has been one of many lowest factors in relations between the 2 nations, New Delhi on Monday determined to withdraw its Excessive Commissioner and “different focused diplomats and officers” from Canada following Trudeau’s continued “hostility” in direction of India.
The MEA had acknowledged earlier this week that India has conveyed to Canada that it reserves the appropriate to take additional steps in response to the Trudeau Authorities’s assist for extremism, violence and separatism towards India.
“India-Canada financial ties are strong and powerful. We now have a big diaspora in Canada. Our college students kind the biggest cohort of worldwide college students within the nation. A number of massive Canadian pension funds have invested in India and Canada stays the most important beneficiary of those linkages and ties. The present disaster within the relationship has been precipitated by the Trudeau authorities’s baseless allegations,” asserted the MEA spokesperson on Thursday.
