Before India, Canada expelled six Indian diplomats posted in Ottawa moments after the government recalled High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other targeted diplomats and officials in the North American country.

Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police claimed that "agents of the Government of India" use criminals - referring specifically to the Bishnoi gang - to "target (the) South Asian community... specifically pro-Khalistani elements" in that country.

The allegations come at a time when the Bishnoi gang is under law enforcement lens in India for its alleged involvement in the killing of former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Baba Siddique.

In the meeting, Ajit Doval acknowledged that Lawrence Bishnoi was capable of orchestrating violence from wherever he was incarcerated, according to a report in The Washington Post.

31 years old incarcerated gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, alias Balkaran Barar, was all of five when the infamous blackbuck poaching case involving Bollywood star Salman Khan took place in 1998 during the filming of "Hum Saath-Saath Hain" in Rajasthan, irking the Bishnoi community which revers the