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A Surrey man whom Indian officials allege is a terrorist mastermind says he is completely innocent and shocked at reports linking him to a 2007 bombing in Punjab.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar told The Vancouver Sun that he’s a hard-working plumber and proud Canadian who has no time for Indian separatist politics.

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Nijjar, 38, said he has a meeting with a lawyer Tuesday to figure out how to respond to the allegations, which were reported in the Times of India and other newspapers on the Indian sub-continent.

“This is garbage — all the allegations. I am living here 20 years right? Look at my record. There is nothing. I am a hard-worker. I own my own business in the plumbing,” Nijjar said Monday in a phone interview.

“I am very, very shocked. My family and me are very shocked.”

Nijjar has no criminal history in B.C.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has issued a warrant for Nijjar on charges of attempting to cause an explosion, making or keeping explosives with intent to endanger life or property, and making or possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances.