Canada expelled six Indian diplomats after the police said they had evidence that India used intimidation and even murder to silence its critics in Canada.

India-Canada ties have deteriorated since Justin Trudeau's September 2023 allegation of a link between Indian government agents and Nijjar's murder.

Canada ties could force western allies into a difficult balancing act in Asia.

India and Canada are embroiled in a diplomatic dispute over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, with both nations expelling diplomats.

India’s government is denying that it works with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada as alleged publicly this week by Canadian officials in an escalating diplomatic dispute.

As India doubles down on rejecting the claim it is behind widespread crimes in Canada, its foreign ministry is accusing Ottawa of trying to smear New Delhi.The federal government ordered India's top envoy to leave the country on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a role in extortion,

Twice since July 2022, Moninder Singh, spokesperson for a Sikh advocacy group in Canada's British Columbia province, has had police come to his door in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey. Twice, Singh said,