In Canada, members of Sikh community have demonstrated outside the Indian consulate in Toronto to protest the unsolved murder of one of their leaders last month in the Vancouver area.

They said the Indian government is responsible for the gunning down of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president of a Sikh temple and campaigner for the creation of an independent Sikh state that supporters hope to call Khalistan.

Talking to media, a spokesperson for Sikhs for Justice, a US-based Kuljeet Singh said when an Indian agency and system commit a crime, they have to be held accountable.

The demonstrators carried yellow flags with blue logos representing their separatist movement and shouted, “Khalistan! Khalistan!”.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down last month in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver that is home to one of the largest Sikh populations in Canada.