Justin Trudeau's office revokes Delhi reception invite to convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal

  • Geeta Mohan
  • New Delhi
  • February 22, 2018
  • UPDATED 16:21 IST
Justin Trudeau's office has revoked invitation to convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal for a Delhi reception. (India Today could not verify where and when this photo was taken)
As pictures of convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal posing with Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie at a Mumbai event went viral, the office of the visiting Canadian Prime Minister said his invitation to the Delhi reception has been revoked. Distancing itself from the decision t

As pictures of convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal posing with Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie at a Mumbai event went viral, the office of the visiting Canadian Prime Minister said his invitation to the Delhi reception has been revoked.

Distancing itself from the decision to invite Jaspal Atwal to the event, Truduea's office said that it is in the process of "looking into how this occurred".

Justin Trudeau's office said that the "Member of Parliament who gave the invitation will be taking full responsibility for his actions".

"This individual should never have been invited to any event or programme, and his invitation has been rescinded," Trudeau's office said.

Reports of Jaspal Atwal, a convicted Khalistani terrorist, at the Mumbai event first surfaced today morning after Canadian media published photographs of him with Canadian Prime Minister's wife Sophie Trudeau.

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