RCMP confirm Hardeep Singh Nijjar was found in a truck outside the Guru Nanak Gurdwara suffering gunshot wounds and are investigating the shooting as a targeted incident
The president of a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., who had been warned by Canada’s spy agency that he was in danger, was shot and killed on the gurdwara grounds on Sunday, prompting a new flare-up of old tensions that have simmered since the Air India bombing 38 years ago.confirmed Hardeep Singh Nijjar was found in a truck outside the Guru Nanak Gurdwara suffering gunshot wounds. He died at the scene.
Mr. Nijjar, 45, had been president of the gurdwara for four years. He had a wife and two sons in their 20s. He was a volunteer with Sikhs For Justice and was an outspoken supporter for the creation of the separate Sikh state of Khalistan, said Bhupinder Singh Hothi, the general secretary of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Society. He said Mr.
The Vancouver Sun reported this week that CSIS intelligence officers had lately been warning Mr. Nijjar about threats to his life. CSIS did not respond Monday to questions from The Globe and Mail seeking comment. A lawyer for Mr. Nijjar also did not respond to a request for comment.According to the documents, the Akal Takhat, the highest religious authority in Sikhism, in August, 2020, directed a religious society in Surrey to hand over book-printing machinery to Mr. Nijjar.
Mr. Malik is the son of Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Vancouver area Sikh who was a long-standing suspect in theThe elder Malik was acquitted at his 2005 criminal trial, but he was killed last year in a homicide for which two suspects are to face trial this fall.
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