The Justice Department said Wednesday that the unnamed Indian government employee agreed, in a deal brokered by Gupta, to pay $100,000 to a purported hit man who was in fact an undercover U.S. law enforcement officer.
President Biden himself, in a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Group of 20 summit in September, stressed the seriousness of the issue “and the potential repercussions for the bilateral relationship were similar threats to persist,” the official said.
In a statement Wednesday before the indictment was unsealed, an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arindam Bagchi, said that India “takes … seriously” the information provided by the United States and earlier this month set up a “high-level inquiry committee” to investigate.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Pannun claimed “India wants to kill me for running the Khalistan referendum campaign.” He called the thwarted attempt on his life “an act of transnational terrorism,” which is a challenge to … U.S. sovereignty and [a] threat to freedom of speech and democracy.”
One day after Nijjar’s slaying, Bobby Singh, a Sikh youth activist in Sacramento, received a call from an FBI agent advising him to take safety measures, including avoiding public places.
Singh, who runs a 24-hour news channel on YouTube for the global Punjabi community, said he had planned to fly to Canada to attend a “final prayer” service for Nijjar, a Sikh funeral tradition.
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The Justice Department said Wednesday that the unnamed Indian government employee agreed, in a deal brokered by Gupta, to pay $100,000 to a purported hit man who was in fact an undercover U.S. law enforcement officer.
President Biden himself, in a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Group of 20 summit in September, stressed the seriousness of the issue “and the potential repercussions for the bilateral relationship were similar threats to persist,” the official said.
In a statement Wednesday before the indictment was unsealed, an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arindam Bagchi, said that India “takes … seriously” the information provided by the United States and earlier this month set up a “high-level inquiry committee” to investigate.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Pannun claimed “India wants to kill me for running the Khalistan referendum campaign.” He called the thwarted attempt on his life “an act of transnational terrorism,” which is a challenge to … U.S. sovereignty and [a] threat to freedom of speech and democracy.”
One day after Nijjar’s slaying, Bobby Singh, a Sikh youth activist in Sacramento, received a call from an FBI agent advising him to take safety measures, including avoiding public places.
Singh, who runs a 24-hour news channel on YouTube for the global Punjabi community, said he had planned to fly to Canada to attend a “final prayer” service for Nijjar, a Sikh funeral tradition.
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