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by alephnerd 1000 days ago
I'd disagree, and plenty of Indian commentators disagreed at the time as well [0].

Paying hitmen to kill violent idiots is a bad look. There are multiple other levers that could be pushed.

All of this only really started after Lawrence Bishnoi started his gang war in Punjab/Haryana/Delhi/Rajasthan.

There's a lot of shifting alliances and blood being spilled now that politics in the state of Punjab are in a flux after the AAP won and destroyed the entire political status quo of Congress versus SAD/BJP.

My gut as someone who has lived in Surrey and has heard the stories in Gurdawaras and Mandirs is that this is Dawood-Chota Rajan 2.0

[0] - https://theprint.in/opinion/security-code/in-hardeep-singh-n...
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morbidious 1000 days ago
Lawrence Bishnoi did claim responsibility for the 2nd killing. But what makes you so sure that the Indian government is contracting the hit squad? The big problem that Canada has is they have not even identified the killer. Even if Bishnoi makes big claims, how are they going to prove them? And then they will have to estabilish the link between GoI and Bishnoi. All that if at all their 'conspiracy theory' that India has a hand in killings holds any water. Which I honestly doubt.
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alephnerd 1000 days ago
> what makes you so sure that the Indian government is contracting the hit squad

It was reported that Pavan Kumar Rai posted a hit on Nijjar on some deepweb website used to hire assassins.

If someone can find that for me I'd appreciate it because I really don't want to go on a hunt for that citation.

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morbidious 1000 days ago
> It was reported that Pavan Kumar Rai posted a hit on Nijjar on some deepweb website used to hire assassins.

If that is the case, I'd have hoped it would be viral by now. But anyhow, they would have to establish the link between the Pavan Kumar Rai's activities and the killer. The killer who they have not identified.

It's similar to when Biden said Russia's Nord stream gas pipelines will be no more if Russia invades Ukraine. When the sabotage was done, no one could blame the US since there was no evidence linking it to them.

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