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Two Canadian gangsters plead guilty, expose Trudeau’s dirty game

Two gangsters in Canada on Monday admitted to killing Ripudaman Singh Malik in July 2022. In doing so, they also exposed the dirty game that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been playing since last year. Trudeau has been trying to paint India as the villain in the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar for sheer votebank interests.
The killings of Malik, an accused in the Air India Kanishka bombing of 1985, and Nijjar are linked to their rivalry and the gangs that the Trudeau government have helped flourish.
Nijjar was shot dead by gunmen in the parking lot of a gurdwara in Surrey. Trudeau has blamed India, without furnishing any evidence, for the gun.
What is also interesting is that the Canadian federal police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), were investigating India’s role even in the Malik murder case. Canadian broadcaster CBC reported on the RCMP probe in May last year.
On October 21, two gangsters, Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez, entered guilty pleas in British Columbia Supreme Court on the eve of their trial for the killing of Malik. The two are not of Indian origin.
The CBC reported that investigators said they didn’t “believe Lopez and Fox were contracted directly by Indian diplomats”.
There was no reason they would.
Malik was let off in the Kanishka bombing case in 2005 due to lack of evidence and had become a changed man. In 2022, he wrote a letter praising and thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “services to the Sikh community”, including the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor and assuring justice was served in cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
There is a big chance that Malik’s pro-India stance has riled Khalistanis like Nijjar.
Reports also indicate that Malik and Nijjar had a feud over the printing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs.
Malik had got the rights and was printing Sri Guru Granth Sahib in Canada, which riled Nijjar and Moninder Singh Boyle, former president of a gurdwara in British Columbia.
Nijjar and Boyle conspired against Malik and seized copies of his printing press, levelling charges of sacrilege, according to a report in The Hindustan Times in September 2023.
They, along with a radicalised Sikh gang, printed and distributed pamphlets labelling Malik ‘Quam ka Gaddar’ (betrayer of the Sikh community). Even after Malik was cleared of the sacrilege charges, they didn’t return the printing machines to him, according to the report.
The gangster-Khalistani connection in Canada is no secret.
Nijjar is said to have had close links to gangster and Khalistani terrorists Arshdeep Dalla and Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias Landa.
Both Dalla and Sandhu, who operated from Canada, have been designated terrorists by India.
India has been alerting the Justin Trudeau administration about the Punjabi gangs in Canada. But the Canadian government has looked away and helped the gangs flourish.
India called out this vote-bank politics, as Sikhs, though 2% of Canada’s population, end up deciding several seats in provinces like Ontario and British Columbia. Trudeau’s government was surviving on the support of Sikh-Canadian Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party (NDP). He also has had pro-Khalistanis in his Cabinet.
Even Malik’s family believe that the Canadian-Sikh leader’s murder was a contract killing. They believe that Fox and Lopez, who both have criminal history, were hired to kill Malik and have demanded that those who masterminded the murder be punished.
“The work [investigation] is not complete. Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez were hired to commit this murder. Until the parties responsible for hiring them and directing this assassination are brought to justice, the work remains incomplete,” Malik’s family said in a statement.
That Nijjar’s killing could be linked to Malik’s murder was also the initial assessment of Canadian law enforcement agencies.
Canada’s former National Security Adviser (NSA) Jody Thomas said that initial intelligence and police probes suggested that Nijjar’s killing was retaliation for the murder of Malik. Thomas was the NSA when Nijjar was killed.
“It [Nijjar’s killing] was the second high-profile murder in the same gurdwara [in Surrey],” Jody Thomas said last week while deposing before Canada’s foreign interference commission. “Mr Malik’s murder had occurred almost exactly the year before. The initial hypothesis was that it was retaliation. But the community was raising concerns.”
It was because of the clamour of the Canadian Sikh community, which was not satisfied with the assessment that Nijar’s killing was a tit-for-tat for Malik’s murder, that the probe was reassessed.
Trudeau has also admitted that when he first accused India-linked agents of Nijar’s murder in 2023, there was no intelligence inputs, and no hard evidence.
India has repeatedly asked Canada to share evidence on Nijjar’s killing but has got none till date.
That Canada’s Nijjar probe stood on flimsy ground was exposed also when RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme on October 16 urged people with knowledge relevant to the investigation to come forward. It was a bid at crowd-sourcing evidence.
The guilty plea of Fox and Lopez in the Malik case exposes how the Trudeau administration tried to blame Nijjar’s killing, which might have stemmed from gang rivalry, on the Indian administration. Nijjar’s killing was very likely a case of reprisal attack for Malik’s murder. To get to the roots of it, Canadian agencies need to conduct a fair probe, and Trudeau needs to stop the blame game.

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