Toronto, Nov. 11 -- Canadian police have arrested an aide of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) general-counsel Gurpatwant Pannun in connection with a violent attack on a Hindu temple in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) on November 3.

In a release on Saturday, Peel Regional Police (PRP) said that 35-year-old Inderjeet Gosal, resident of Brampton, was arrested and charged on Friday with Assault with a Weapon. He was released on conditions and is to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton at a later date.

Gosal is considered Pannun's lieutenant. He replaced Hardeep Singh Nijjar as the so-called Khalistan referendum's main Canadian organiser after the latter was killed in Surrey, British Columbia on June 18 last year. Nijjar's murder led to a ...