In October, the Canadian authorities provoked India by naming the Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Verma as a“person of interest” in their probe into Nijjar's killing. New Delhi retaliated by summoning Ottawa's Charge d'Affaires and lodging a strong protest, before withdrawing the Indian envoy and expelling six Canadian diplomats.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his foreign minister condemned the attack on a Hindu temple in Canada this week amid a worsening in diplomatic tensions between the two countries.Modi, who has mostly refrained from commenting publicly about the India-Canada situation,

The prime ministers of India and Canada condemned violence that broke out on Sunday at a Hindu temple near Toronto at a time of escalating diplomatic tensions between the two countries.