Jaishankar reacts to arrest of three Indians in Canada over Sikh activist’s murder

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday that they are waiting for Canadian police to share information on arrest of three Indian men over last year’s murder of a Sikh activist.

The Indian top diplomat made the comment a day after the arrest of three Indian men over the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and the announcement of probing on suspected links of arrestees with the Indian government, according to Reuters.

Jaishankar said, “The suspects apparently are Indians of some kind of gang background... we'll have to wait for the police to tell us."

"But, as I said, one of our concerns which we have been telling them is that, you know, they have allowed organized crime from India, specifically from Punjab, to operate in Canada," said Jaishankar.

Sanjay Verma, India's high commissioner to Canada, said that it hopes to get regular updates from Canadian authorities regarding the three arrested Indians.

Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in June outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb with a large Sikh population, last year. Three Indian nationals were arrested in the city of Edmonton in Alberta on Friday over the murder.