Toronto, Aug. 27 -- A federal court has upheld decisions to deny asylum claims filed by a Punjab-origin couple on the grounds that their argument they would face persecution if they returned to their home country due to their pro-Khalistan activity in Canada was "disingenuous". In a judgment published on Monday in Montreal, federal court judge Benoit M Duchesne deemed "reasonable" the previous decisions taken by the Refugee Board of Canada's Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) on February 15, 2024, and IRB's Refugee Protection Division (RPD) three months earlier. The principal applicant 38-year-old Amandeep Singh and the associate applicant 32-year-old Kanwaldeep Kaur had amended their original application before the RPD hearing to state they "had become supporters of Khalistan during their time in Canada and will be persecuted as a result of their new political activities if they are returned to India." P3...