SYDNEY: Australia’s spy chief Mike Burgess has said that he sees no reason to deny Canada’s disclosures against India regarding the assassination of a Sikh leader, Western media reported on Thursday.
The head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization told ABC News, “No reason to deny what Canada’s government has revealed in this matter,”.
Australia’s Spy Chief Sees no Reason to Reject Canada’s Disclosures Against India Over Killing of Nijjar
Mike Burgess has arrived in California for a meeting of Five Eyes intelligence countries, of which Canada and Australia are both members.
“There is no doubt any claim of any country being accused of conducting an execution of a national in that country, it is a very serious charge, and something that we do not do and something that countries should not do,” he added.
In answer to fears among the Sikh population in Australia of similar type of violence, the spy chief said, “I can promise you that when we find governments interfering in Australia, or planning to interfere in our state, we will deal with them very effectively.”
Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed on June 18 in Canada’s province of British Columbia, in front of a Sikh temple.
After the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that they have credible reasons to believe that India’s agents were involved in the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. He also called on New Delhi to collaborate with Canada to ensure a transparent probe into the murder of Nijjar on Canadian soil.
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Tensions between Canada and India escalated after PM Trudeau’s assertion of a “possible” involvement of India’s agents in the Sikh leader’s killing on June 18 in British Columbia. Nijjar was a supporter of independence for a Khalistani state in Indian Punjab.
Recently, as many as 41 Canadian diplomats have left New Delhi, India after Prime Miniter Justin Trudeau publicly linked India’s intelligence to the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian national.
