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

The indictment against Vikash Yadav points to a direct link between the Indian government and what prosecutors say was a murder-for-hire scheme on American soil.

The US has charged a former Indian spy for allegedly planning assassination of a Sikh separatist and Indian critic in New York City. Washington has alleged that Indian agents were behind the plot against dual US-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

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.