India rejected as “absurd” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation that its agents were behind the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.
. Nijjar, 45, was shot and killed in June outside a Sikh cultural center in Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver.
India has long accused Canada, where about 2% of the population is Sikh, of supporting a movement to establish an independent Sikh state known as Khalistan. The movement is outlawed in India but has supporters among the Sikh diaspora in countries such as Canada and Britain.
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