External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said that the government is open to the idea of an investigation into the killing of Canadian citizen and Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said agents of the Indian government were behind the killing of Nijjar in British Columbia earlier this year.
Mr. Jaishankar was speaking at the Royal Overseas League in London on Wednesday evening at an event organised by a U.K. government think tank, Wilton Park, and the Indian High Commission.
“We are not ruling out an investigation and looking at anything which they may have to offer,” Mr. Jaishankar told his interviewer, former Editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber.
