Nijjar killing: List of 21 Pro-Khalistan elements taking shelter in Canada
Hardeep Singh Nijjar: India said that the allegations levelled by Canada are incorrect and based on unsubstantiated assumptions.
Referring to Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed in June, Justin Trudeau said that he was a “Canadian citizen”, alleging a "potential link" between the Indian government and his death. "Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar," said Justin Trudeau while speaking at the House of Commons in Ottawa.

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Earlier in July, Justin Trudeau said that there is 'freedom of expression' in Canada when asked about a parade in Brampton which glorified the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. "We have an extremely diverse country and freedom of expression is something that we have, but we will always make sure that we are pushing back against violence and extremism in all its forms," the Canadian prime minister had then said, asserting, “Canada has always taken extremely seriously violence and threats of violence.”
India said that the allegations levelled by Canada are incorrect and based on unsubstantiated assumptions. The issue of deportations of wanted terrorists have been raised by Indian authorities at multiple diplomatic and security talks.
Here's a list of Khalistan elements taking shelter in Canada:
1. Arshdeep Singh Dala of Khalistan Tiger Force. Stays in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
2. Satinderjit Singh Brar aka Goldy Brar. Stays in Canada with a valid Indian passport till 2026.
3. Snover Dhillion. Stays in Ontario.
4. Ramandeep Singh aka Raman Judge. Stays in BC, Canada.
5. Gurjit Singh Cheema of Khalistan Liberation Front. Stays in Toronto.
6. Gurjinder Singh Pannu. Stays in Toronto.
7. Gurpreet Singh of KLF. Stays in Surrey, Canada.
8. Tehal Singh of ISYF. Stays in Toronto.
9. Malkeet Singh Fauji of ISYF. Stays in Surrey. Canada.
10. Manvir Singh Duhra of ISYF. Stays in BC, Canada
11.Parvkar Singh Dulai aka Pary Dulai of ISYF. Stays in Surrey, Canada.
12.Moninder Singh Bijal of KTF. Stays in Vancouver, Canada.
13.Bhagat Singh Brar akak Bhaggu Brar of ISYF. Stays in Toronto.
14.Satinder Pal Singhh Gill of ISYF. Stays in Vancouver, Canada.
15.Sulinder Singh Virk. Stays in Brampton , Canada.
16.Manveer Singh of KLF. Stays in Toronto, Canada.
17.Lakhbir Singh aka Landa. Stays in Canada.
18.Sukhdul Singh aka Sukh Duneke. Stays in Ontario.
19.Harpreet Singh. Stays in Brampton, Canada.
20.Sundeep Singh aka Suny aka Tiger. Stays in BC, Canada.
21.Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal of KTF. Stays in Surrey, Canada.
This list along with full dossiers has been shared with all the Five Eyes at an individual level as well as at the institutional level but no action has been taken by the Trudeau government, Hindustan Times reported.
ABOUT THE AUTHORShishir GuptaShishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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