NEW DELHI: Hours after India expelled a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday in a tit for tat transfer in retaliation to Canada’s motion of expelling an Indian diplomat, the Canadian Embassy within the nationwide capital requested its native staffers to depart the premises in the course of the midday, sources mentioned. A extremely positioned supply mentioned that the Canadian Embassy within the nationwide capital was shut publish 2 p.m. The supply mentioned that the domestically engaged employees on the Embassy have been requested to vacate the premises instantly in view of the present diplomatic tensions.
The supply additional mentioned that in an electronic mail communication all the workers have been requested by the authorities on the Embassy to not converse to any media or publish something on the social media. Nevertheless, when contacted, the officers refused to remark on the Canadian Embassy.
Amid deteriorating diplomatic relations between India and Canada, New Delhi on Tuesday expelled a senior Canadian diplomat based mostly right here, who has been requested to depart throughout the subsequent 5 days. The Excessive Commissioner of Canada to India (Cameron Mackay) acquired summons on Tuesday throughout which the Authorities of India conveyed its determination to expel a senior Canadian diplomat at the moment stationed within the nation.
The involved diplomat has been formally instructed to depart from India throughout the subsequent 5 days, a press release issued by the exterior affairs ministry mentioned. “The choice displays Authorities of India’s rising concern on the interference of Canadian diplomats in our inner issues and their involvement in anti-India actions,” the assertion mentioned.
The choice got here after Canada had earlier expelled a excessive rating Indian diplomat. These developments have occurred after Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday in an emergency assertion in Parliament accused the Authorities of India of involvement within the deadly taking pictures of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Trudeau had mentioned that the Canadian safety companies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a possible hyperlink between Indian authorities brokers and the homicide of Khalistan Tiger Pressure chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June.
India has rejected claims by the Canadian authorities that it had an involvement within the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Terming them as “absurd and motivated”, the exterior affairs ministry in a press release mentioned: “Now we have seen and reject the assertion of the Canadian Prime Minister of their Parliament, as additionally the assertion by their International Minister. Allegations of Authorities of India’s involvement in any act of violence in Canada are absurd and motivated.”
