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Canada designates Indian gang linked to high-profile killings as terrorist entity

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Police escort Lawrence Bishnoi at a court in New Delhi, India, on 18 April 2023. Photograph: Rahul Singh/ANI via Reuters

Canada’s federal government has announced that a powerful and ruthless Indian gang which uses “murder, shootings and arson” to extort and intimidate diaspora communities – and has alleged links to India’s ruling government – has been designated as a terrorist entity.

Canada has accused the Lawrence Bishnoi gang of possible involvement in the murder of prominent Sikh activist and Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver.

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