Sandeep Singh Sidhu, an employee of CBSA and a member of the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, is accused of promoting terrorist activities in Punjab.

India shared security-related information with Canada about various gang members, including those belonging to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and requested their arrest, but "no action has been taken by the Canadian side" on the request.

India has added Canadian border police official Sandeep Singh Sidhu to its list of fugitive terrorists amid tensions with the country over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -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.

Sign up for the India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise, delivered weekly.India said it is withdrawing High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other officials from Canada after disclosing they had been named as “persons of interest” in an investigation into the murder of a Sikh activist in British Columbia.

Ottawa's accusations this week detailing a deadly Indian campaign against its Canada-based critics may have further derailed bilateral relations -- but to Sikh activists, the striking disclosures brought validation.