In October, the Canadian authorities provoked India by naming the Indian High Commissioner Sanjay Verma as a“person of interest” in their probe into Nijjar's killing. New Delhi retaliated by summoning Ottawa's Charge d'Affaires and lodging a strong protest, before withdrawing the Indian envoy and expelling six Canadian diplomats.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his foreign minister condemned the attack on a Hindu temple in Canada this week amid a worsening in diplomatic tensions between the two countries.Modi, who has mostly refrained from commenting publicly about the India-Canada situation,

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised the "cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats" in his first comments over the deepening diplomatic row with Canada. Both countries expelled each other's top envoys last month after Canadian officials accused India of being involved in violent acts targeting Indian dissidents on Canadian soil,

The prime ministers of India and Canada condemned violence that broke out on Sunday at a Hindu temple near Toronto at a time of escalating diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the attack on a Hindu temple in Canada over the weekend and described the disruptions outside an Indian consular camp as an “appalling” attempt to intimidate its diplomats as relations between the two nations ebb.

In a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter), Mr Modi said: “I strongly condemn the deliberate attack on a Hindu temple in Canada. Equally appalling are the cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats. Such acts of violence will never weaken India’s resolve. We expect the Canadian government to ensure justice and uphold the rule of law.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India condemned violent protests that erupted in a Canadian city over the weekend.