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Canadian police on Friday (May 3) arrested and charged three Indian men with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year and said they were probing whether the men had ties to the Indian government.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 June 18, 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar was arrested and charged by Canadian police on Friday with

00:07 the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year and said they were

00:11 probing whether the men had ties to the Indian government.

00:15 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police named the three men as 28-year-old Karanpreet Singh,

00:22 22-year-old Kamalpreet Singh and Karan Brar, who is also 22 years of age.

00:29 Following many months of investigative work by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team

00:34 with close collaboration and assistance from the Federal Policing Programme in B.C., RCMP

00:39 National Headquarters, the Surrey RCMP Detachment and other partner agencies, three suspects

00:45 have been arrested and charged for their alleged involvement in the killing of Mr. Nijjar.

00:51 45-year-old Nijjar was shot dead in June outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb

00:58 with a large Sikh population.

01:01 A few months later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited evidence of Indian government

01:07 involvement, prompting a diplomatic crisis with New Delhi.

01:11 Nijjar was a Canadian citizen campaigning for the creation of Khalistan, an independent

01:18 Sikh homeland carved out of India.

01:21 "I definitely think it was a real threat.

01:22 I think that's what the plan was.

01:23 And I don't think they will deviate from that plan in the near future.

01:29 As long as there are Sikh voices out there demanding Khalistan or sovereignty or potentially

01:32 other minorities that could be under risk as well, that are Indian minorities, I think

01:37 it's a very real risk."

01:39 The presence of Sikh separatist groups in Canada has long frustrated New Delhi, which

01:44 had labelled Nijjar a terrorist.

01:46 "I think it's a real threat.

01:47 I think it's a real threat.

01:48 I think it's a real threat.

01:49 I think it's a real threat.

01:50 I think it's a real threat.

01:51 I think it's a real threat.

01:52 I think it's a real threat.

01:53 I think it's a real threat.

01:54 I think it's a real threat.

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Canada police charge three with murder of Sikh leader Nijjar

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