Hardeep Singh Nijjar Killing: Amid ongoing diplomatic tensions between India and Canada over the killing of a Khalistani terrorist, another big development came under the spotlight. A friend of Nijjar, who was gunned down in the parking lot of a gurdwara in Surrey in British Columbia on June 18, has said that the slain leader was being tracked before his killing.

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"A couple of weeks before his death, he had come home to say there was a tracking device on the bottom wheel well of his vehicle," CTV has quoted Moninder Singh, a spokesperson for the British Columbia Gurdwaras Council, as saying. "When he was at a mechanic shop, it (the vehicle) was raised and they found it," he said.

Singh recalled what happened on the day Nijjar was killed in the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara's parking lot. "The first call was made to me by the person who opened the door and saw him inside. He called and told me to get there right away," Singh said as quoted by news agency IANS.

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He claimed that video footage from the area captured the car of the suspect which was following Nijjar through the parking lot. "It followed him (Nijjar) through the parking lot, cut him off through the back exit where he was going to exit out and slowed down and led him to almost a stop to where shooters emerged to shoot him. It was very well coordinated," he said.

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The murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar came into the limelight after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently spoke about the matter and accused Indian government agents of killing a Khalistani terrorist in June in British Columbia. Trudeau claimed that his government had credible evidence linking the murder of Nijjar to Indian agents. However, India rejected Trudeau's allegations and called them "absurd" and "motivated".

(With Inputs From IANS)