Canada and India announced tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after Canadian police said Indian agents have been involved in homicides on Canadian soil.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs said on Oct. 14 that it is expelling Acting High Commissioner Stewart Ross Wheeler and five other diplomats. They have been asked to leave the country by Oct. 19. The move came as Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, including its High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma, as the row between the two countries escalates.
The latest crisis between the two nations comes a little over a year after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Indian agents of having a hand in the assassination on Canadian soil of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, sending diplomatic relations into a tailspin. The Indian government had accused Nijjar of being a terrorist
