Indian ambassadors are accused by Canadian police of "criminal" acts, including killings.

Monday night, hours after senior diplomats were ejected from both nations in an intensifying geopolitical spat, Canadian police accused Indian diplomats and consular personnel of engaging in "clandestine" and "criminal" operations within the nation. The head of the Royal Canadian Mounted police (RCMP) told reporters during a hurriedly scheduled press conference that the agency has proof of "agents" acting on behalf of the Indian government and engaging in harassment, extortion, intimidation, and coercion. Commissioner Mike Duheme said to reporters that investigations had shown that Indian consular and diplomat personnel stationed in Canada took advantage of their official positions to carry out covert operations like gathering intelligence for the Indian government, either directly or through intermediaries; and other people who took voluntary or coercive action. The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, accused India last year of assassinating the well-known Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the British Columbian province. The claims made by the RCMP represent the first official look by the police into the breadth and depth of India's purported activities in Canada. "We will never tolerate the involvement of a foreign government threatening and killing Canadian citizens on Canadian soil," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared on Monday night. India erred greatly when it decided to target Canadians with its diplomats and organized crime. The RCMP has obtained "ample, clear and concrete evidence which identified six individuals as persons of interest in the Nijjar case," according to Canada's foreign minister, Mélanie Joly. She claimed that although India was asked to participate with the probe and forgo its diplomatic and consular immunity, it refused. Joly stated, "Unfortunately, since India refused to comply and considering the continuous worries about Canadians' safety, Canada served notices of expulsion to these individuals." Because "getting to the bottom of this is still in the interest of both of our countries," she requested that the Indian government assist the current probe. Activists have charged India in recent months with a well-planned campaign of "transnational terrorism" directed on Sikhs.