India, Sept. 30 -- While Canada designated the Lawrence Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity on Monday, India had in the past warned Ottawa several times about its activities.

Those warnings were delivered in 2021 and in 2022 but were largely ignored by the government of then Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau before it accused India last year of using the gang members to target pro-Khalistan separatists based in Canada.

The matter was discussed by officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) when they visited Ottawa in 2021 for talks with their Canadian counterparts.

It was raised again in the summer of 2022 as Indian officials expressed their concern over "translocational criminal gangs" using Canada as a base to plan crimi...