India resumed issuing e-visas to Canadian tourists and business travellers on Wednesday.
An Indian government official told media on condition of anonymity:
“E-visa services to Canadian nationals have resumed.”
India issues e-visas to Canadian citizens only for tourism and business. This comes a month after New Delhi resumed issuing visas in 4 of the 13 categories suspended in September.
Relations between India and Canada deteriorated after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canada’s parliament that his government was “actively investigating credible allegations” linking Indian government agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, in a Vancouver suburb. Nijjar was one of the proponents of a decades-long but now secondary demand for an independent Sikh homeland called Khalistan to be spun off from India.
