Conversations intercepted by Canada and the United Kingdom implicate high-level Indian officials in the assassination of a B.C. Sikh leader, Global News has confirmed.

British intelligence provided Canada with the initial tip that it had picked up communications tying India’s government to the 2023 shooting death of Hardeep Nijjar.

Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercepts and evidence corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.

The monitored conversations, together with other evidence, explain why Ottawa accuses New Delhi of being behind the murder of the Canadian-Sikh activist, even as India denied any role.

The British High Commission declined to discuss the matter. “It is the U.K.’s long-stan

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