India had no role to play in a recent shooting at the house of a pro-Khalistani activist Simranjeet Singh in Canada's Surrey, an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has found.
According to the RCMP, the gunshots fired at Singh's home on February 1 were carried out by two Canadian teenagers.
"At the time of this incident, there was speculation circulating that this was connected to foreign interference. Investigators have not established any links to foreign interference in relation to this matter," the RCMP said in a statement.
Following the shooting incident, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a banned organization headed by proscribed Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun alleged that it was an Indian government plot to assassinate Singh.
However, the probe conducted by the RCMP debunked his claim as the security agency didn't find any evidence of Indian involvement in the crime.
Pannun stated that Singh was an active member of the SFJ besides being a close aide of another proscribed Khalistani militant Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was killed in Surrey last year.
The Canadian government later said that Nijjar's killing was carried out by "agents of the Indian government".
India, however, vehemently denied any role in Nijjar's murder, underlining that Canada's accusations were "politically motivated".