The Bishnoi gang’s indictment by a US court in California for the June 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, is covered in four crisp paragraphs of a 38-page chargesheet, which also contains extortion and drug-running activities by the gang.
The indictment, the US equivalent of a chargesheet that has been approved a court, does not mention Indian official involvement in the killing of the prominent Khalistan leader — an allegation that was first made by then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in September 2023 and that, a year later, plunged India-Canada ties to an unprecedented low. India recalled its then High Commissioner Sanjay Verma and several others posted to the mission in Canada after they were named as “persons of interest” in the killing.
