Trudeau calls India’s death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar credible allegations

TORONTO — Canadian authorities Authorities are pursuing “credible allegations” linking Indian government agents to the killing of a prominent Sikh leader on Canadian soil in June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told lawmakers Monday.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen who campaigned for the creation of a separate Sikh state in the Punjab region of India, was shot dead in his vehicle by two masked gunmen outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey, in British Columbia. Nijjar, born in India but based in Canada, was president of the temple.