Two of India's regional allies have voiced their support for Delhi in its ongoing diplomatic spat with Canada over the murder of Khalistani independence leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who is deemed a terrorist in India.
Ottawa has blamed Delhi for the murder, a charge India quickly refuted, prompting a swift deterioration in bilateral relations.
For its part, Bangladesh reiterated its backing for India and protested Canada's extradition policy, with Dhaka's Foreign Minister Abdul Momen blasting that “Canada must not be a hub of all the murderers."
“The murderers can go to Canada and take shelter, and they can have a wonderful life while those they killed, their relatives are suffering," said Momen.
Bangladesh has long called on Ottawa to extradite Noor Chowdhury, the man who admitted to carrying out a separate hit on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, in 1975.
Canada, for its part, continues to refuse the extradition, citing its "rejection of Bangladesh's death sentence."
Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan high commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda, also issued a statement stating that Colombo supports New Delhi in the row with Canada and that India's response to Canada's accusations has been "firm and direct."
He reiterated Sri Lanka's zero-tolerance policy to terrorism during a press conference, highlighting how it has caused suffering for the people of Sri Lanka.