#CutTheClutter( Abridged version) : As India & Canada squabble, we look at votebank politics,Sikh radicals & how AI-182 bombers got away

A massive diplomatic row has erupted after Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, addressing the country’s parliament, spoke of “credible allegations” about a “potential link” between Indian government agents and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, chief of the Khalistan Tiger Force, this June in British Columbia. The Indian government has dismissed the allegations as “absurd”, and both countries have expelled one diplomat each in the wake of the row. In Ep 1249 of Cut The Clutter, originally published on 9 June, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta talks about why Sikh radicals have found a haven in Canada, and how Canadian investigators let the men who bombed Air India Kanishka in 1985 get away with it.