Toronto: The Indo-Canadian neighborhood has welcomed an injunction from a Canadian court docket prohibiting pro-Khalistan protesters from disrupting a consular camp at a Toronto temple on Saturday.
In a press release issued on Friday, the Hindu Cultural Society, Shree Lakshmi Narayan Mandir mentioned, “The Superior Courtroom of Justice in Ontario has issued an interlocutory injunction prohibiting all protest actions, together with bodily stopping, or interfering with entry to inside a 100-metre radius of the Lakshmi Narayan Mandir in Scarbrough from 8am to 6pm on Saturday, November 30, 2024. This order goals to make sure the security and sanctity of the temple premises and people through the specified hours.”
The order, reported by the Hindustan Occasions earlier, was handed on Thursday, and applies to the consular camp to be hosted by the temple and held by India’s Consulate in Toronto. The camp is for offering life certificates to pensioners.
The Nationwide Alliance of Indo-Canadians (NAIC) mentioned the court docket order “should be carried out in letter and spirit throughout the nation”.
The Canadian chapter of the Coalition of Hindus of North America (COHNA) mentioned it was “relieved to see sanity prevail”. “This resolution reinforces the suitable to non secular freedom and peaceable meeting,” it mentioned, including, “It’s unacceptable for political protests to function a canopy to harass minorities and undermine their spiritual freedoms. It’s time for Canadian establishments to behave decisively to guard all communities equally.”
The Hindu Canadian Basis demanded “pressing accountability to uphold justice and safeguard spiritual freedom”.
The Canadian Organisation for Hindu Heritage Training (CoHHE) mentioned, “It’s a precedent setting ruling that sends a strong message to all Canadian politicians, police forces and, importantly to Khalistanis planning to protest at occasions at temples.”
The injunction was granted on the premise of an software from the Lakshmi Narayan Mandir.
The camp on the Mandir has already been focused by pro-Khalistan teams, together with the secessionist Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), which have known as for protests in opposition to India’s Consulate in Toronto holding the consular camp there.
An identical injunction was granted earlier in November to the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Ross Avenue gurdwara in Vancouver, which later hosted two camps with out stories of disruption.
India’s missions in Canada are holding the final batch of scheduled consular camps at varied places within the nation over this weekend.
Apart from the one on the Lakshmi Narayan Mandir, others are scheduled in Surrey, British Columbia in addition to one within the city of London within the province of Ontario. The focusing on of those camps resulted within the violent invasion of the Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton on November 3 by pro-Khalistan radicals, and its aftermath led to a number of arrests being carried out by native legislation enforcement.
