The UK police were implicated in corruption of investigations of celebrity rape cases, so it only stands to reason that a nation state would have even more leverage to bury justice.
Two activists, also linked to the separatist movement, were murdered within weeks of Khanda’s death in Canada and Pakistan, while a third survived an attempt on his life in the US.
Polak’s letter includes the report of consultant forensic pathologist, Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl, who was provided with Khanda’s death certificate, hospital notes, and a toxicology report. “Consideration should be given as to whether the deceased could have been exposed to substances that may result in the development of an acute leukaemia,” he said.
The question, now arising about a series of sudden deaths of Indian political activists, is why UK forensic tests were so incomplete.
Most significantly, samples were not tested for well known “nerve agents, biological agents or nuclear agents,” which have been used in assassinations to cause aggressive cancer.
The pathologist’s statement about exotic poisoning cases is very telling.
I have been involved with a number of cases where there has been suspicion of poisoning by unusual agents. One case required extremely specialised testing at Kew Gardens… two other cases involved potential poisoning by foreign powers. These involved the use of multiple experts above and beyond the normal expertise of toxicologists, including expertise from Porton Down. There are some poisons that can only be identified if they are suspected.
Was anything suspected? Comparison with police corruption in the celebrity rape cases becomes even more apt when considering what this investigation actually entailed.
West Midlands police confirmed in a 2024 meeting that their investigation did not include “reviewing phones, laptop, talking to his friends, co-workers, searching his home address [or] considering information about attacks on Sikh activists around the world“. Here’s the news in 2023, as a refresh of what the UK police would have been considering at the time.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent assertion that the Indian government played a role in Nijjar’s death is being hailed by many here as validation of their suspicions.
As if that’s not enough, Israeli intelligence has been boasting on high visibility public channels that anyone with a phone is completely and utterly exposed to a high precision assassination. It’s like they want everyone to know, CHECK THE PHONE.
Khanda died just three days before Nijjar’s assassination in Canada, making the lack of thorough investigation even more glaring in hindsight. The contrast between the sophisticated testing capabilities available (Kew Gardens, Porton Down) and what was actually done highlights a stark case failure.
The forensic expert’s warning of exotic poisons and need to test for them is particularly powerful because it shows a likely assassination was being inexplicably blocked from an obvious threshold of suspicion. Somehow, for some reason, the UK police performance with regard to sudden deaths of Sikh leaders includes not even the most basic investigation.
Mind the gap that can be seen here, between available capabilities and actual investigation, because it indicates either extraordinary incompetence or something far worse.