Documents released by the Justice Department of British Columbia, Canada show that all four alleged accused in the murder of NIA designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar appear to be no longer in custody.
Three of the alleged accused in Nijjar murder (Image credit: Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
Documents released by the Justice Department of British Columbia, Canada show that all four alleged accused in the murder of NIA designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar appear to be no longer in custody.
The case documents show ‘N’ against the status of being in custody. The four men — Karan Brar, Karan Singh, Amandeep Singh, Kamalpreet Singh and Karanpreet Singh were charged with the murder of Nijjar and conspiracy to commit murder, by the Canadian Police.
Brar, 22, Karanpreet Singh, 28, and Kamalpreet Singh, 22, were all taken into custody in Edmonton on May 3. A fourth accused identified as Amandeep Singh (22) was already in custody of Peel Regional Police in Ontario for unrelated firearms charges and was also arrested for the said crime on May 11.
According to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) in British Columbia, they are accused of murder and conspiracy. Police personnel however had not given any evidence of any link to India as was being speculated in the Canadian media.
At the time of the arrest of the alleged accused, the Ministry of External Affairs
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