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VOL 23 - ISSUE 41
www.theasianstar.com SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2024
Surrey Hindu temple-goers call for police suspensions after protest arrest A Hindu temple in Surrey, B.C., is calling for the suspension of police officers involved in what it calls “unjustified violence against temple devotees” during unrest on Sunday in which three people were arrested. The arrests outside the Sri Lakshmi Narayana Hindu Temple came as protesters calling for a separate Sikh nation called Khalistan had demonstrated outside the temple on Sunday during a visit by Indian consular officials. The temple issued a statement on social media to condemn what it called an “attack on the Hindu temple by extremist elements,” saying it
underscores the “urgent need” for government officials to stop escalating violence. Videos posted on social media show two men being restrained and held to the ground by officers outside the temple. Surrey RCMP said officers were deployed to the temple around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday to maintain public safety during the consular visit, “when hundreds of protesters arrived.” They say violence broke out and, while no one was injured, three people were arrested. Videos show both RCMP and Surrey Police Service officers in attendance. Continued on Page 10...
South Asian man who raped a teen jailed for three years A 56-year-old B.C. man who confessed to documenting the sexual assault of a teenage girl and told the court he didn’t need consent to have
sex with women, has been jailed after a judge rejected his request to have the case tossed over court delays. Prakash Lekhraj, who shared images of the rape in a group chat and told members that the girl “took it like a champ,” was convicted of sexual assault and making or publishing child pornography in a November 2023 trial. The B.C. prosecution service says he’s been sentenced to more than three years in prison for the crime, details of which were recently made public in a decision from provincial court Judge Ellen Gordon on Sept. 18. Continued on Page 7...
Mother can't appeal Canadian jail sentence from India, court decides A woman sentenced to six months less a day in jail and three years of probation for lying to a Surrey passport officer and trying to set up a falsified passport for her infant cannot pursue an appeal of her conviction and sentence from India, a superior court has decided. Justice Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten, of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia, denied Sapna Kapoor's request to have her appeal heard from India, where she now lives, finding Kapoor hasn't pursued sufficient steps to Continued on Page 3... return to Canada.
BC bird flu case confirmed, Health Canada says vaccines ready
Canada’s first human case of avian influenza in a B.C. teenager has the country’s health officials on high alert. Continued on Page 2...
India to pursue extradition of Arsh Dalla with Canada The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said it expected that Canada ‘extradite or deport’ Arsh Dalla, a designated terrorist in India. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, while reacting to media reports about Dalla’s arrest in Canada, said, “It is expected that he will be extradited or deported to face justice in India.” Jaiswal, in view of the recent arrest, said, “Our agencies will be following up on an extradition request.” Dalla has criminal record in India and is involved in similar illegal activities in Canada. Jaiswal said media reports are circulating since November 10 on the arrest in Canada of proclaimed
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offender Arsh Dalla. Canadian print and visual media have widely reported on the arrest. “We understand that the Ontario court has listed the case for hearing,” he said. Dalla is a proclaimed offender in over 50 cases of murder, attempt to murder, extortion and terrorist acts, including terror financing. In May 2022, a Red Corner Notice was issued against him. He was designated in India as an individual terrorist in 2023. In July 2023, the Government of India had requested the Canadian government for his provisional arrest. This was declined. Additional information was provided in the case.
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