India has taken up concerns on diplomats' security with UK post 2 Oct protest outside Indian High Commission: MEA

India has “certainly taken up concerns on the security of diplomats and premises with the UK authorities” after a protest took place outside the Indian High Commission in London October 2.

“In the UK, there was a protest on October 2, and we certainly have taken up our concerns on the security of diplomats and premises there with the UK authorities. And this has been an ongoing thing,” the Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi, said on Thursday.

“The issue is about security, about ensuring that our diplomats are able to function normally and our premises are safe and that the community is not targeted,” he added.

During a protest outside the Indian High Commission in London on October 2, the Tricolour was insulted.

Highly placed sources in the Indian High Commission told Firstpost that MEA has conveyed to the UK government that it must arrest these Khalistani extremists.

The Indian High Commission in London is, in the meanwhile, following up with the UK counterparts, and looking into the legalities.

The MEA has also started mounting pressure on the UK government for the arrest of perpetrators, especially Gurcharan Singh and Paramjit Singh ‘Pamma’. The latter is on the most wanted list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Gurcharan Singh and Pamma, accompanied by a crowd, desecrated the national flag of India while staging a protest outside India’s London High Commission on October 2 in the wake of the diplomatic row between New Delhi and Ottawa over the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, another Khalistani extremist, was gunned down in Canada early this year.

Sources in the Indian High Commission also said the MEA has reached out to its UK counterparts to goad the police for identifying Khalistani supporters from several video footages of the protest and arrest them on charges of hate crime.