Wanted Terrorist Sandeep Singh Sidhu Is Canada Border Services Agency Employee – Explosive Details

New Delhi: The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has confirmed to Times Now that Sandeep Singh Sidhu — wanted for “promoting terrorist activities” in Punjab and the murder of a Shaurya Chakra awardee in Punjab’s Tarn Taran — is a CBSA employee.

This comes after India added a Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) official, identified as Sandeep Singh Sidhu, to its list of fugitive terrorists sought for deportation. India and Canada is already engaged in diplomatic row over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Who Is Sandeep Singh Sidhu?

43-year-old Sandeep Singh Sidhu is an accused in the October 2020 assassination of Balwinder Singh Sandhu, a 2020 Shaurya Chakra awardee and Canadian national, outside his home at Bhikhiwind in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which took over the investigation in 2021, told the Supreme Court that operatives with the banned terror outfit Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) hatched the conspiracy and masterminded Sandhu’s murder.

Sidhu is reportedly a CBSA superintendent living in Abbotsford, British Columbia and is alleged to have promoted terrorist activities in Punjab. He is also accused of having links with the Pakistan-based Lakhbir Singh Rode, the nephew of radical Sikh preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a designated terrorist in India under the UAPA, and Sikh separatist Gurjot Kaur.

According to Indian agencies, Sidhu is also a member of the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF). The ISYF, reportedly, remains banned in India, Australia, Japan, the US, and Canada.

India Names 26 Terrorists

Earlier, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, at a press briefing, pointed out that at least 26 extradition requests from the Indian side, sent over the last decade or more, were still pending with Canadian authorities.

“There are 26 extradition requests pending with the Canadian side, these are over the last decade or more, along with that, there are several provisional arrest requests, which are also pending with the Canadian side, of certain criminals,” said Randhir Jaiswal.

He added, “We had shared security related information with the Canadian government regarding gang members, including those of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and requested them to arrest them (criminals)… So far, no action has been taken by the Canadian side on our request.”

The MEA’s statement came against the backdrop of Canadian officials earlier this week accusing Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang of targeting Khalistan dissidents in Canada at the behest of New Delhi.