The diplomats and 42 family members left amid growing tension over Canada’s assertion that India was complicit in the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia.
Forty-one Canadian diplomats have left India as a result of the dispute between the countries over the murder of a Sikh activist, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said.
The moves come after Canada's allegations that India may have been involved in the June killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar in suburban Vancouver.
India’s ultimatum came amid a simmering dispute over allegations that agents of the Indian government might have been behind the murder of a Sikh separatist in Canada.
Canada’s foreign minister said Thursday that 41 of the country’s diplomats have been removed from India after the Indian government said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity.
The decision comes amid Canada's accusations that India was behind the killing of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver. The incident has caused diplomatic relations to deteriorate between Ottawa and New Delhi.
India and Canada are locked in a dispute over Ottawa’s claims that the Indian government orchestrated the extra-judicial slaying of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver.
Canada withdrew 41 diplomats and their family members from India in the latest fallout from tensions between the two countries over the assassination of a prominent Sikh leader in June.
By Paula Newton, CNN Ottawa (CNN) — Canada has withdrawn 41 diplomats and their families from India after New Delhi threatened to revoke their diplomatic immunity amid a deepening dispute over the assassination of a Sikh activist.
Dozens of Canadian diplomats have left India after the country threatened to revoke their immunity in an “unreasonable and escalatory” violation of international law, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie
