By its actions, Canada seems to have definitively shut the door on back-channel communication on the Nijjar issue. Up till now, they were talking to Indian officials in a bid to improve the relationship between the two countries. That attempt is now over..
In August 2023, the Union Home Ministry promulgated a unique order under Section 268 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which prohibited anyone taking Bishnoi from out of the Sabarmati Jail for questioning in other cases for one year. This has now been extended…
The latest Canadian government accusations that Indian agents were involved in the assassination of its citizen and Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar have evoked strange responses on all sides. India’s official reaction, denying the charges, is predictable. India had demanded that Canada produce evidence of its involvement.
Apparently, such evidence was presented by a representative of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating the case, at a secret meeting in Singapore on October 12 with India’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval. However, according to The Washington Post, the Canadians were told that India “would deny any link to the Nijjar murder and any link to any other violence in Canada no matter what the evidence was”.
The facile rejection of evidence (as opposed to intelligence reports presented to India earlier) that it had itself asked for was no surprise….
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Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths
Constitutional principles go for a toss in the criminal law of search and seizure
After the truth-shower 