At least four Indian spies were quietly ushered out of Australia in 2020 after overstepping their monitoring of Indians living here. Australian Sikh activists critical of Narendra Modi's government also say they've received threats here, amid accusations the Indian government orchestrated two assassination plots overseas.
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00:00By day, Harjinder Singh is a taxi driver in Melbourne, but his real passion is the push
00:06for a Sikh state to break away from India and become a nation called Khalistan.
00:12At a key moment in the movement, Harjinder says he received a threatening call from a
00:16private number.
00:18A couple of months later, his phone rang again.
00:20I got a call at midnight and I was scared.
00:24Why?
00:25Who's calling me at this time with no caller ID?
00:27They're not listening to us now, so be careful.
00:32Then he says his parents' home in Punjab got a knock on the door.
00:36Some people visited my place.
00:37We told you to stop and we got orders from the Indian authorities.
00:42If anyone's doing opposite, like against the country, yeah, we got orders to kill them.
00:50We've spoken to more than six other Australians in the movement who say they've also received
00:55threats from Indian authorities.
00:57Last year, the Indian government was accused of two assassination plots against Sikh activists
01:02overseas.
01:03Harip Singh Nisha was shot dead in Canada in a case that shocked the world.
01:08Nisha's friend Maninder Singh is in Australia to sound an alarm.
01:12In Australia, it's brewing.
01:14They're already here.
01:15They're already interfering.
01:16And it's very dangerous for the Sikh community here.
01:19Four Corners can reveal at least four Indian spies were quietly asked to leave Australia
01:24in 2020.
01:26They were accused of a number of oversteps, including monitoring the diaspora.
01:30This is the Indian High Commission in Canberra, and it's where the Modi government's representatives
01:34work here in the country.
01:37It's also where the Indian spies were pretending to be unsuspecting diplomats.
01:42The Modi government thought it got away without any public embarrassment.
01:47In a statement, a spokesperson said the Australian government is deeply concerned by these allegations
01:52and doesn't tolerate violence against its citizens.