Ottawa: Days after a violent Khalistani mob stormed the premises of a Hindu temple in Canada's Brampton and attacked devotees, the Indian High Commission in Canada decided to cancel some of the planned consular camps.
The Indian Consulate General in Toronto said that the Canadian authorities refused even "minimum security protection" for such camps. "In view of the security agencies conveying their inability to provide minimum security protection to the community camp organizers, the consulate has decided to cancel some of the scheduled consular camps," the Indian Consulate General in Toronto said in a post on X.
The denial of security by Canadian security agencies comes at a time when Khalistani elements have become hyperactive and issued open threats to Indian-origin people and India-linked organisations.
Indo-Canadian MP Chandra Arya said he feels the Khalistani extremists have infiltrated the country's law enforcement agencies besides its political apparatus. Canada was forced to suspend a cop, Harinder Sohi, after videos of him participating in a pro-Khalistan protest outside the attacked temple in Brampton went viral. Sohi, a Sergeant of the Peel Regional Police, was caught on camera holding a Khalistan flag, while others in the protest chanted anti-India slogans.
