Shots have been fired at the home of a Sikh activist in Brampton, Ontario, police said, following a recent spat between Canada and India over assassination of another activist.
Constable Tyler Bell-Morena said Peel Regional Police were alerted by construction crews about what appeared to be “a bullet hole in a window of the home” of Inderjit Singh Gosal in the province of Ontario, and are investigating.
Gosal is also a close associate of prominent Sikh leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American Sikh activist in New York whom US authorities say was the target of a thwarted assassination plot in the US last year.
There were no injuries in the shooting as the home is under construction and currently unoccupied.
“We understand who this person is and his affiliations, but it’s just too early for us to speculate that there’s any connection” to other violence and threats, the police official said.
“We are obviously investigating it with all avenues in mind,” he added.
