{"id":171349,"date":"2023-12-02T03:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kupitiblog.store\/576r\/how-alleged-india-plots-to-kill-sikh-separatists-in-the-us-and-canada-unfolded\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T03:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T00:51:39","slug":"how-alleged-india-plots-to-kill-sikh-separatists-in-the-us-and-canada-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kupitiblog.store\/576r\/how-alleged-india-plots-to-kill-sikh-separatists-in-the-us-and-canada-unfolded\/","title":{"rendered":"How alleged India plots to kill Sikh separatists in the US and Canada unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"

An undercover U.S. law enforcement officer is handed $15,000, described by the U.S. Department of Justice as the advance cash payment, by an associate of Nikhil Gupta, who was charged with orchestrating the attempted murder of a Sikh separtist, in a car i<\/span> <\/i> <\/p>\n

By Luc Cohen and Krishn Kaushik<\/p>\n

NEW YORK\/NEW DELHI (Reuters) — The alleged plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on U.S. soil began in May, with a text message between what the American indictment says was an Indian security official and an alleged drugs trafficker. <\/p>\n

«Save my name,» the official wrote to a man named Nikhil Gupta over an encrypted messaging application on May 6, according to U.S. prosecutors. <\/p>\n

The official told Gupta — who the prosecutors described as an Indian national involved in drugs and weapons trafficking — about a «target» in New York. The official wanted Gupta to orchestrate the target’s murder, in exchange for getting criminal charges against him in India dropped. <\/p>\n

While prosecutors have not identified the alleged victim, a senior administration official told Reuters it was Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a New York-based lawyer who leads a separatist group called Sikhs for Justice. Pannun confirmed he was the target. <\/p>\n

«We will hit all our Targets,» Gupta replied, an apparent boast. <\/p>\n

The exchange kicked off what U.S. prosecutors described as a six-week, unsuccessful plot to assassinate Pannun that was made public in a Nov. 29 unsealed indictment charging Gupta, 52, with murder-for-hire. <\/p>\n

This account of the foiled alleged conspiracy is based on the 15-page indictment filed in Manhattan federal court, which suggests U.S. law enforcement personnel had caught onto the plot shortly after it began. <\/p>\n

‘FINISH HIM BROTHER’<\/p>\n

On May 12, about a week after Gupta and the Indian official first exchanged messages, the official wrote Gupta again to tell him that a criminal case against him in India’s Gujarat state had been «taken care of.»<\/p>\n

U.S. prosecutors did not name the Indian official, who they described as a government employee responsible for intelligence and security matters. A spokesman for India’s foreign ministry has said the plot was «contrary to government policy.» <\/p>\n

Assured that his charges had gone away, Gupta went about fulfilling his side of the bargain. On May 29, Gupta asked a person he believed to be a criminal associate if he knew anyone who would be willing to carry out a «murder-for-hire» in the United States.<\/p>\n

The associate — who is not named in the indictment — said he would check his contacts and asked for details about payment. Unbeknownst to Gupta, the associate was a confidential source of U.S. law enforcement. <\/p>\n

The Indian official sought to rush Gupta along, warning him that the assassination should not take place while top level Indian officials visited the United States from June 20-24. <\/p>\n

At the time, Washington and New Delhi were planning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s late June visit to the U.S. <\/p>\n

«Finish him brother,» Gupta wrote his associate on June 3. «Don’t take too much time.»<\/p>\n

The next day, Gupta’s associate sent him a surveillance photograph of the plot’s target. The associate went on to introduce Gupta over text messages to the person who would purportedly carry out the murder, and Gupta arranged for a $15,000 cash handoff to the purported hitman as an advance.<\/p>\n

«We are all counting on you,» Gupta told the purported hitman in a video call on June 12.<\/p>\n

The purported hitman was an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent, the indictment says. <\/p>\n

On June 13, the day after the video call, a grand jury meeting in secret in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan indicted Gupta, court records show. The charges were filed under seal; Gupta would not be arrested until the end of June. <\/p>\n

The White House found out about the plot in late July, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed it with his Indian counterpart in early August, a U.S. official told Reuters. <\/p>\n

A MURDER IN CANADA<\/p>\n

As the foiled U.S. plot unfolded, another Sikh separatist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was killed in a Vancouver suburb on June 18 by a masked gunmen. <\/p>\n

In a call the next day to his ‘associate,’ Gupta said Nijjar had also been a target of the plot and «some other guy did this job.» He warned the source — who he still believed to be working for him — that their target was likely to take extra precaution in light of Nijjar’s killing.<\/p>\n

On June 22 — the same day Modi visited U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House — Gupta’s Indian government handler told him that their target was «not at home.» <\/p>\n

In urgent messages over the next few days, the official told Gupta his U.S.-based associates needed to step up their surveillance and «be ready» in case the target came back to either his home or office. <\/p>\n

The target returned to his home on June 29, according to a message Gupta wrote the undercover DEA agent. <\/p>\n

«Try to get this done if you have the visuals and if you are sure,» Gupta said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The next day, Gupta traveled from India to Prague, where he was arrested, and is yet to be extradited to the U.S.<\/p>\n

Three months later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were credible allegations that Indian government agents were linked to Nijjar’s murder, an accusation New Delhi called «absurd.» <\/p>\n\n

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