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(Bloomberg) — An Indian national admitted to his role in a foiled 2023 criminal plot to kill a Sikh activist with US citizenship who was living in New York.
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Nikhil Gupta, 54, pleaded guilty at a federal court hearing in New York Friday to three charges linked to a plan to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an activist who publicly supported establishing a Sikh state in Punjab, the state in northern India where most of the adherents to the religion live.
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Gupta was arrested in June 2023 in the Czech Republic and extradited to the US. By pleading guilty, he avoids trial in a case that inflamed tensions in the US-India relationship.
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Prosecutors claimed Gupta was part of a group working with the Indian government to target Sikh separatists overseas, including the deadly June 2023 shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar by masked gunmen outside a Sikh temple in Western Canada. In the New York case, the US said Gupta hired an assassin to kill Pannun, on the orders of Vikash Yadav, an officer with India’s external intelligence agency who is also charged in the case.
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Gupta has been held without bail since his arrival in the US. He faces decades in prison. Yadav remains in India.
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Pannun called the attempt to kill him a “blatant case of India’s transnational terrorism which has become a challenge to America’s sovereignty and threat to freedom of speech and democracy” in a statement at the time of the charges against Gupta and Yadav.
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India has claimed Pannun is a terrorist and outlawed his group, which advocates for an independent Sikh homeland, calling it a threat to India’s territorial integrity. Gupta’s court appearances have been regularly attended by a group of Sikh men who sit together in the gallery behind Gupta.
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The case is US v. Gupta, 23-cr-00289, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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