{"id":608894,"date":"2026-04-16T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608894\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:17:09","slug":"b-c-sikh-activist-says-police-warned-him-of-imminent-threat-to-life-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608894\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Sikh activist says police warned him of \u2018imminent\u2019 threat to life | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776377829_84_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A few dozen protesters gathered outside the Indian consulate in downtown Vancouver to mark two years since the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., allegedly at the behest of the Indian government. (June 18, 2025).<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 16, 2026 | 2:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 An associate of slain B.C. Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar says police have alerted him of an \u201cimminent\u201d threat to his life.<\/p>\n<p>Narinder Singh Randhawa says in a sworn statement sent to The Canadian Press that he was first contacted by Surrey Police last Saturday, with an officer issuing the \u201cduty to warn\u201d notice over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>The Surrey, B.C., resident has been an organizer of rallies for the pro-Khalistan movement \u2014 which seeks the formation of an independent Sikh state within India \u2014 since at least 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Nijjar, a leader in the pro-Khalistan movement, was gunned down in Surrey outside his Sikh gurdwara that year, in a case Canadian authorities have linked to Indian agents, which India denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few dozen protesters gathered outside the Indian consulate in downtown Vancouver to mark two years since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-608894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}