Canada’s federal police are investigating a warning in movies circulating on-line to not fly Air India beginning November 19, the transportation minister mentioned Thursday.
“We take each menace significantly, particularly when it considerations airways,” Transportation Minister Pablo Rodriguez informed reporters in Ottawa.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he added, “is doing an investigation.”
The movies, posted on-line within the final week, function Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the overall counsel for the US-based Sikhs for Justice, which advocates the creation of a separate Sikh state carved out of India.
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He warns Sikhs within the video: “Do not fly Air India after November 19, your lives could also be at risk.”
He informed Canadian media this was not a menace, however slightly a name to boycott Indian companies.
The Sikh separatist motion is basically completed inside India, the place safety forces used lethal drive to place down an insurgency within the state of Punjab within the 1980s.
Canada is residence to some 770,000 Sikhs, who make up about two per cent of the general inhabitants, with a vocal minority calling for making a separate Indian state known as Khalistan.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in September raised allegations that Indian brokers performed a task within the June homicide of a Canadian Sikh chief, close to Vancouver, and expelled an Indian diplomat believed to have a hyperlink to the slaying.
India dismissed as “absurd” the bombshell accusation.
Relations between India and Canada have plunged over the unsolved slaying, and Indian unhappiness over how Ottawa has dealt with Sikh separatists.