US charges ex-Indian intelligence official in foiled Sikh murder plot


  • World
  • Friday, 18 Oct 2024

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer who allegedly directed a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York City last year.

An indictment of Vikash Yadav was ordered to be unsealed on Thursday, court records showed. Yadav was a former officer in India's Research and Analysis Wing spy service, the records said.

Washington has alleged Indian agents were involved in an attempted assassination plot against Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

An Indian government committee investigating Indian involvement in the foiled murder plot met with U.S. officials in Washington on Tuesday, a meeting that Washington described as productive.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Luc Cohen; Editing by Chris Reese)

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