"In March that year, the then thirty-year-old Canadian permanent resident (he is now a Canadian citizen) had attended a rally protesting the Indian government's crackdown on civil liberties in Punjab. But Amarjot says it was a peaceful event. He hadn't thrown anything. He wasn't a political leader. He was a truck driver, a man of faith, and a father to a baby girl."
"As Amarjot tried to understand how his name had become linked to a terror attack he hadn't heard of, something far more chilling filled the headlines: a few days before, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent Sikh leader in Surrey, British Columbia, had been gunned down by masked men outside the gurdwara where he served as president. Many in Canada's Sikh community believed the killing had all the markings of a political assassination-one ordered by the Indian state."
Amarjot Singh, a Canadian resident, received a call informing him that India's National Investigation Agency had accused him of leading a mob that allegedly threw grenades at India's high commission in Ottawa. He insists he attended a peaceful March rally protesting India's crackdown in Punjab, that he did not throw anything, and that he is a truck driver and father who attended out of family loyalty. The shooting death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey heightened tensions, with many in Canada's Sikh community viewing it as a political assassination linked to Nijjar's Khalistan activism and reported warnings from Canadian intelligence about threats to his life.
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