When Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, visited India in 2018, Captain Amarinder Singh, the then-chief minister of Punjab, sent him a list of wanted people that included Hardeep Singh Nijjar. 

On Sunday night in Canada’s Surrey, two unidentified youngsters shot and killed Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the leader of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib and the commander of the Khalistan Tiger Force.

Nijjar, 46, a native of the Jalandhar village of Bhar Singh Pura, was widely known, according to the Union government, for his active involvement in operationalizing, connecting with, training, and paying members of the Khalistan Tiger Force. Additionally, he was accused of a brutal crime. He was charged in an investigation launched by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). He recently travelled to Australia to participate in the referendum voting and was a member of Sikh for Justice.

In the course of the investigation, it was found that Nijjar had shared images and videos on social media, posted offensive information, and made statements that may be used to “spread insurrectionary imputations” through angry utterances.

A report from the NIA states that “the incriminating evidence thus gathered substantiates that he is involved in exhorting seditionary and insurrectionary imputations and also attempting to create disharmony among different communities in India.”

During Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to India in 2018, the then-Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, sent him a copy of the wanted list that contained his name. A red corner notice was issued against Hardeep Singh Nijjar because he was charged in several cases that the Punjab Police had opened and were under investigation.

According to a Punjab government order in 2020, Nijjar’s native hamlet of Bhar Singapura in the Phillaur subdivision of the Jalandhar district had 11 kanals and 13.5 marlas of land taken from him. A resident remarked that although Hardeep’s parents frequently return to the area and had most recently done so before to the lockdown, his family had long ago migrated. A red corner notice was issued against Hardeep Singh Nijjar because he was charged in several cases that the Punjab Police had opened and were under investigation.

According to a Punjab government order in 2020, Nijjar’s native hamlet of Bhar Singapura in the Phillaur subdivision of the Jalandhar district had 11 kanals and 13.5 marlas of land taken from him. A resident remarked that although Hardeep’s parents frequently return to the area and had most recently done so before to the lockdown, his family had long ago migrated.