New Delhi:

India on Sunday evening described as “pretend” and “utterly fabricated” a media report which claimed {that a} “secret memo” was issued by New Delhi in April to take “concrete” measures in opposition to sure Sikh separatists together with Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated the report is a part of a “sustained disinformation marketing campaign” in opposition to India and the outlet that got here out with it’s recognized for propagating “pretend narratives” peddled by Pakistani intelligence.

On-line American media outlet The Intercept got here out with the report.

“We strongly assert that such stories are pretend and utterly fabricated. There isn’t any such memo,” Mr Bagchi stated.

“That is a part of a sustained disinformation marketing campaign in opposition to India. The outlet in query is understood for propagating pretend narratives peddled by Pakistani intelligence. The posts of the authors affirm this linkage,” he stated.

“Those that amplify such pretend information solely achieve this at the price of their very own credibility,” he stated, responding to media queries on the report.

In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the allegation of a “potential” involvement of Indian brokers within the killing of Nijjar on Canadian soil on June 18.

India strongly rejected the costs, calling them “absurd”.

In its report, The Intercept claimed that the Indian authorities issued directions on a “crackdown scheme” in opposition to sure Sikh entities in western nations.

It additional claimed that the key memorandum issued in April by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs lists a number of “Sikh dissidents below investigation by India’s intelligence companies, together with the Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar”.

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