UK’s GCHQ shared intel with Canada implicating Delhi in Nijjar, Pannun murder plots: Report

TOI correspondent from London : It was the British intelligence agency GCHQ which handed a dossier to Ottawa of intercepted communications alleging the Indian government was behind various plots to kill Khalistan separatists, according to a Bloomberg documentary. The video documentary by “Bloomberg Originals”, titled “Inside the Deaths That Rocked India’s Relations With the West”, claims that the Cheltenham-based intelligence agency, which specialises in signals intelligence, was the one that intercepted conversations between individuals discussing three potential “targets”: Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, Avtar Singh Khanda in Britain and Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US. Analysts believe the individuals having these conversations were “working on behalf of the Indian govt”, the docu