TOI correspondent from Washington: Taking a more measured and lowkey approach than Canada in the matter of purported transnational hit jobs, the Biden administration on Wednesday said it is “satisfied” with the cooperation it is getting from New Delhi in the US investigation into the alleged foiled assassination plot targeting Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Pannun.
” It continues to be an ongoing process. We will continue to work with them on that, but we do love the teamwork and how they keep up with us as we keep up with their investigation,” state ministry spokesman Matthew Miller said at the daily briefing following a meeting with the visiting Indian team looking into the matter.
Miller described it as a “productive meeting” and claimed that the visiting Indian crew had informed the US that the person alleged to have planned the murder of Pannun was no longer a member of the Indian government.
The individual, identified as CC1 in the US indictment, is reported to be a Central Reserve Police Force ( CRPF ) officer on deputation to Research and Analysis Wing ( R&, AW ) named Vikram Yadav. According to US records, CC1 reportedly recruited Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, to get a hunter to reduce Pannun, who the American government has designated as a criminal. The hitman later revealed to be an unidentified US agent.
Gupta was detained in Prague earlier this year, and he was then extradited to the US, where he has pleaded not guilty ahead of an upcoming trial. In response to rumors that some players may have gone rogue, India has stated that it does not condone or sanction transnational killing.
In response to the US and Canada adopting a benign attitude toward violent Khalistani extremists who have attacked Indian diplomatic missions and threatened Indian diplomats and officials, New Delhi has also pushed back against them.
Pannun, a dual citizen of US and Canada, has a free run in both countries and continues to openly threaten Indian officials, most recently sending out an email showing India’s ambassador to the US, Vinay Kwatra, in the cross hairs of a rifle in a visual, with the message” Wanted: Enemy of Sikhs”.
Washington has maintained a relatively low level of dialogue with New Delhi, but Canada has taken the issue into the public eye by asserting that, despite its own admission, it has not provided any supporting” credible allegations,” New Delhi has been involved in the killing of Sikh separatists. Since his government depends on the support of Sikh leaders, many of whom are Khalistani separatists, allegations are rife in Canada’s political environment.
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