Agencies say officials close to Trudeau could force the killers of Nijjar to confess their links to Indian security agencies by using physical and other forms of torture.
Canadian law enforcement agencies are unlikely to have found any concrete links to support the claim that the killers of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar were acting on the direction of the Government of India, contrary to the assertions made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canada, from the start, has been working on the assumption that Nijjar was killed on the orders of the Government of India, as he was a senior member of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force and a wanted terrorist in India.
However, officials monitoring the situation in Delhi said that Nijjar was likely killed by members of one the many thousand gangs that are active in Canada and his death was a possible fallout of a business dealing gone wrong or for establishing supremacy in the region, as Nijjar, using his clout, was carrying out illegal activities. The Sunday Guardian has earlier reported that at least 3,000 criminal gangs were operating in Canada as per an assessment carried out by one of Canada’s own security agencies.
As per an assessment by another agency, there were strong reasons to believe that Nijjar, who was closely working with the personnel of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, was eliminated by his own handlers. The reason behind this act of murder is a matter of conjecture as of now.
According to sources, Canada till date has not shared any concrete proof with India that could support its allegation that Nijjar’s killers were working for the Indian government.
The theory doing the rounds among the security agencies is that there is a possibility that a few officials close to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could force the killers of Nijjar to confess their links to Indian security agencies by using physical and other forms of torture to save a loss of face for Trudeau.
Earlier last week, a Canadian newspaper had claimed that two suspects believed to be responsible for killing Nijjar were being closely monitored by Canadian law enforcement. As per the report, they were likely to be arrested in the coming weeks. Nijjar was shot dead outside a gurdwara in Surrey, Canada, on 18 June. The new report by Globe and Mail further stated that the suspects never left Canada after the shooting.
As per sources, two heavily built men, one of whom was considerably smaller than the other, had participated in the killing and fled the scene while wearing mask and boarded a silver 2008 Toyota Camry that had another suspect waiting inside. In total, as per the investigators, there were six people who were a part of the murder.
In a response to this newspaper, Timothy Pierotti of Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which is overseeing the investigation in the matter, told The Sunday Guardian that since it was an active investigation they could not comment on the investigational steps being taken or the evidence collected.