Canada has reportedly lifted extra screening measures for travellers to India. The office of Transport Minister Anita Anand told CBC news that the extra screening measures imposed earlier this week on people travelling to India have now been lifted.

Two days after alerting Canadians that air travellers to India would be subjected to extra security screening, federal Transport Minister Anita Anand’s office says those safeguards have been withdrawn.

Canada has lifted the additional security measures for passengers flying to India. The measures, put in place by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) a few days ago were designed to enhance airport security following heightened concerns amid a diplomatic rift between the two countries.

Ottawa says it has evidence linking Indian government agents to the 2023 murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. This week, the Globe and Mail newspaper said Canadian security agencies believed Modi knew about the violent plots and said Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and national security adviser Ajit Doval were also in the loop.

Canadian media outlet The Globe and Mail, citing unnamed officials, had reported that Canadian and American intelligence agencies had found links to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah to the killing of Nijjar in June 2023.