India, Oct. 3 -- While a government task force monitoring the April federal election in Canada kept tabs on potential foreign interference by India, no incident of that nature was mentioned in its report released on Thursday. However, China and Russia were cited as having attempted to interfere in the poll.

The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force (SITE TF) "actively monitored for potential foreign interference related activities by the Government of India during GE45 (45th General Election)". However, no incident was mentioned in that regard.

However, examples of activities "observed" by the task force included transnational repression efforts, particularly by the People's Republic of China, efforts by China-linked...