{"id":36807,"date":"2026-07-08T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/08\/incarcerated-indian-allegedly-orchestrated-murder-of-sikh-activist-in-canada-says-u-s\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:22:56","slug":"incarcerated-indian-allegedly-orchestrated-murder-of-sikh-activist-in-canada-says-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/08\/incarcerated-indian-allegedly-orchestrated-murder-of-sikh-activist-in-canada-says-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarcerated Indian Allegedly Orchestrated Murder of Sikh Activist in Canada, Says U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>U.S. prosecutors have charged several Indian gang members with orchestrating the assassination of a well-known Sikh activist in Vancouver in 2023. This murder has triggered a significant diplomatic rift between India and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes after a lengthy investigation by U.S. and international law enforcement into organized crime groups linked to India. On Tuesday, authorities announced three indictments and brought charges against 37 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the alleged leaders of these criminal groups is Lawrence Bishnoi. U.S. officials claim he managed a drug trafficking and extortion operation worth millions, all while being incarcerated in India. Bishnoi is specifically accused in the indictments of ordering the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a British Columbia activist advocating for an independent Sikh state in India.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. prosecutors have charged several Indian gang members with orchestrating the assassination of a well-known Sikh activist in Vancouver in 2023. This murder has triggered a significant diplomatic rift between India and Canada. This development comes after a lengthy investigation by U.S. and international law enforcement into organized crime groups linked to India. On Tuesday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1022,1021,471,152],"class_list":["post-36807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-india-news","tag-canada","tag-hardeep-singh-nijjar","tag-india","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}