Melodi in jeopardy.

Regarding the expulsion of Canadian diplomats, "A very strong step taken by the Indian government. It showed the whole world that don't mess with India, otherwise India would come out to be very, very strong. India will give it bad, and you will face the consequences," said a supposed defence expert Shiwalee Deshpande to ANI. Asian News International (ANI) is allegedly a strong supporter of the present Modi administration. wikipedia. "The Canadian govt has been monitoring individual journalists and media and has compiled and submitted a dossier of social media posts by them." "The report focuses on accounts on X, Facebook and YouTube that belong to what it describes as 'godi media'." TOI. The label 'Godi media' meaning 'media sitting on the lap' or 'lapdog media' was coined by veteran Indian journalist Ravish Kumar. wikipedia. "After the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claimed a few days ago that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang active in Canada was linked to Indian government agents," India has named Sandeep Singh Sidhu, an official of Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) as a fugitive terrorist that India wants to be extradited to India. ET. While reacting fiercely to Canada's allegations of killing Hardeep Singh Nijjar, India has adopted a commendably devious tactic to neutralize the US case against former Indian government official Vikash Yadav in an attempted assassination plot against US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun (justice.gov).  Within three weeks of Yadav being named in the US indictment in November 2023, "On December 18, 2023, the Delhi Police Special Cell arrested Yadav after an FIR was filed against him by a Rohini resident, accusing him of extortion and kidnapping and linking him to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, the Indian Express report notes. "The filing of this Delhi Police case implies that any US extradition request for Vikash Yadav would likely be put on hold pending the final outcome of this case, including disposal of all appeals - a process which could take years." The Wire. The Indian justice system is renowned as 'tarikh pe tarikh' meaning 'date after date', where cases take decades to be resolved. legalserviceindia. Yadav served in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) as assistant commandant and was then employed by India's intelligence service the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). News18. That he would rob anyone of a gold chain, some rings and some cash is laughable. "Canada's partners in Five Eyes intelligence alliance - the US, the UK and Australia - have backed Ottawa's investigation about an alleged link between the Indian government and the killing of pro-Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and called on New Delhi to cooperate in the probe." HT. India may not have much to lose with total trade with Canada amounting to a paltry $8 billion in 2023. (cgitoronto.gov.in. But Canada is a member of the G7 and invitations to the high table could disappear. No more 'Melodi' selfies (ET). Hugging Putin (HT) is not as exciting. Is it?