India waits for details on arrests in Canada over killing of Sikh separatist

India will wait for police in Canada to share information on the three Indian men they arrested and charged with murder in the death of a Sikh separatist leader last year, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday.

Police charged the three on Friday in the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and said they were probing whether the suspects had links to the Indian government.

Jaishankar said he had seen news of the arrests and that the suspects "apparently are Indians of some kind of gang background ... we'll have to wait for the police to tell us."

At an event on Saturday in the state of Odisha, Jaishankar criticized the Canadian government for allowing people with links to organized crime into the country.

CBC's Evan Dyer breaks down what investigators revealed on Friday about the arrests of three men in connection with the killing of prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., last June.

A few months later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited credible allegations of Indian government involvement, prompting a diplomatic crisis with New Delhi.