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In tit-for-tat move, India asks Canada diplomat to leave country in 5 days

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) reads a joint statement as his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau looks on at Hyderabad House in New Delhi [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

A senior Canadian diplomat has been ordered to leave India within five days, the Indian foreign ministry said, hours after Ottawa expelled an Indian diplomat in an escalating rift over the killing of a Sikh separatist earlier this year.

New Delhi’s decision reflected its “growing concern at the interference of Canadian diplomats in our internal matters and their involvement in anti-India activities”, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

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