Deepening the diplomatic row between Delhi and Ottawa over the killing last year of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, India Tuesday strongly rejected Canada’s assertion that it had shared credible evidence of Indian involvement in the Nijjar case.

The Indian pushback came on the day Canada reached out to the UK and New Zealand — along with the US and Australia, who are also India’s Quad partners, Canada, UK and New Zealand make the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance — and briefed them on its probe into allegations of Indian involvement in the Nijjar killing.

Hours after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press conference that he had informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the end of last week about the importance of a meeting between the NSAs of the two countries in Singapore, but nothing came out of it, sources in New Delhi hit back at Trudeau and said it was “the same old Trudeau saying the same old things for the same old reasons”.