Canadian PM Trudeau's comments against India grave: Margaret Macleod, US State Department's Hindustani Spokesperson

US department of State’s Hindustani Spokesperson, Margaret Macleod termed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations about India's involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader as "serious". She said the US continues to have a discussion with our Canadian counterparts and Indian fellows on this. "The important thing is that those guilty are brought to justice."

New York: Terming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations about India's involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader as "serious", Margaret Macleod, US department of State’s Hindustani Spokesperson said 'we continue to have a discussion with our Canadian counterparts and Indian fellows on this.'

The important thing is that those guilty are brought to justice, said Macleod.

"India-America relationship is the most consequential of all and we are cooperating on a large level whether it is science and technology, AI, space and in the field of education and we hope to continue the same way in future as well," Macleod told PTI.

The ties between India and Canada came under further strain following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations of a "potential" involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June.

India on Tuesday rejected the allegations as "absurd" and "motivated" and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa's expulsion of an Indian official over the case.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) and one of India's most-wanted terrorists who carried a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen outside a gurudwara in Surrey in the western Canadian province of British Columbia on June 18.