The biggest takeaway from the American investigation is not who has been accused, but who has not been accused. The indictments unsealed under Operation Hard Ball accuse jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his associates of orchestrating the 2023 assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. They make no allegation against the Indian government. That alone removes much of the cloud that has darkened India-Canada relations for the past three years.

That omission matters. When Nijjar was shot dead outside the gurdwara he headed in Surrey, British Columbia, in June 2023, then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly suggested that Indian agents were behind the killing. The allegation plunged bilateral relations to an unprecedented low.

Diplomats were expelled, trust evaporated, and the two democracies seemed........

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