US charges former Indian spy allegedly linked to foiled murder plot
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 (RAW) spy service, the records said.
He remains at large.
The murder-for-hire plot was first disclosed by federal prosecutors last year when they announced charges against a man, Nikhil Gupta.
He was recruited by a then unidentified Indian government employee to orchestrate the assassination of the Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who is a US citizen.
FBI director, Christopher Wray, said in a statement the FBI will not tolerate acts of violence or other efforts to retaliate against those residing in the US for exercising their constitutionally protected rights.
An Indian government committee investigating Indian involvement in the foiled murder plot met with US officials in Washington on Tuesday.
The United States had been pushing India to look into the US justice department’s claim that an Indian intelligence official directed plans to assassinate Pannun.
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