The former Indian government employee, Vikash Yadav, orchestrated a plot to kill an advocate of the Khalistan separatist movement last year, prosecutors said.

Vikash Yadav has been charged in connection with a foiled plot to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

US prosecutors accused an Indian government employee of directing a foiled plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist with US citizenship in New York, in a case that has disrupted US-India relations and mirrors a 2023 killing in Canada.

The Justice Department said a former Indian intelligence officer plotted to murder a Sikh separatist leader in New York City last summer.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against an Indian government employee in connection with a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader living in New York City

The US Justice department has charged Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence officer, in the alleged plot.

The Justice Department charged Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence officer, in a foiled assassination plot on U.S. soil, after Biden administration officials grew frustrated with India’s own investigation into wrongdoing.

Federal prosecutors charged an employee of India’s intelligence service with allegedly directing an audacious plot to kill a vocal Sikh activist in New York, an escalation in a long-running investigation that has threatened a rift in the U.