London, October 3
The family of Avtar Singh Khanda — the principal orchestrator of the violence at the Indian High Commission in London who died this year — has sought a formal inquest into his death from the chief coroner for England and Wales.
The request by the family, as well as the Sikh Federation UK, came just as Khalistan supporters staged an anti-India protest outside the Indian High Commission in London on Monday.
It also corresponds with a bitter diplomatic spat between New Delhi and Ottawa, fuelled by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent allegations of India’s involvement in the death of pro-Khalistan hardliner Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
