In 2016, Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal returned to Punjab from Canada, where he’d moved to with his parents a decade ago. He came back to get married. Two months after his wedding and weeks before the 32-year-old was to return to Canada, Dhaliwal was charged with violating the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The evidence against Dhaliwal, who worked as a plumber in Canada, ranges from names on his list of Facebook friends and his past experience with a “suspicious” species of birds: pigeons.
