Biden administration on collision course with New Delhi over attempted killing of an American – Canadian terrorist

This wanted poster provided by the FBI shows Vikash Yadav, an Indian government employee, wanted on criminal charges in connection with a foiled plot to kill a U.S. citizen in New York City. (FBI via AP)

USA administration seems to have forgotten its own killing of terrorist Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and also all such other killings.

Now its Justice Department has announced criminal charges Thursday against an Indian government employee in connection with a foiled plot to kill an American terrorist who is a Khalistani leader living in New York City.

This terrorist is also holds Canadian citizenship. Vikash Yadav an Indian citizen, faces murder-for-hire charges in a planned killing of the said American terrorist, that prosecutors first disclosed last year and have said was meant to precede a string of other politically motivated murders in the United States and Canada.

Yadav remains at large, but in adding him to the indictment and releasing his name, the Biden administration sought to publicly pressurize the Indian government for “criminal activity” that has emerged as a significant point of tension between India and the West over the last year — culminating this week with a diplomatic flare-up with Canada and the expulsion of diplomats.

“The FBI will not tolerate acts of violence or other efforts to retaliate against those residing in the U.S. for exercising their constitutionally protected rights,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement.

India by expelling the Canadian diplomats has made it very clear that it will not tolerate such nonsense from any country.

India too must punish any terrorist trying to act against India, no matter from which part of World.

The criminal case was announced the same week as two members of an Indian inquiry committee investigating the plot were in Washington to meet with U.S. officials about the investigation.

“They did inform us that the individual who was named in the Justice Department indictment is no longer an employee of the Indian government,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters before the case against Yadav was unsealed. “We are satisfied with cooperation. It continues to be an ongoing process.

On Monday, Canada said it had identified India’s top diplomat in the country as a person of interest in the assassination of a Canadian terrorist there and expelled him and five other diplomats.

Justin Trudeau and police officials went public this week with allegations that Indian diplomats were targeting Canadian terrorists in Canada by sharing information about them with their government back home.

They said top Indian officials were then passing that information along to Indian organized crime groups who were targeting the activists, who are Canadian citizens, with drive-by shootings, extortions and even murder.India has totally rejected the accusations as absurd, and its foreign ministry said it was expelling Canada’s acting high commissioner and five other diplomats in response.

The “ murder-for-hire plot” was first disclosed by federal prosecutors last year when they announced charges against a man, Nikhil Gupta, who was recruited by a then-unidentified Indian government employee to orchestrate the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in New York.

Gupta was extradited to the United States in June from the Czech Republic after his arrest in Prague last year.

The rewritten indictment said Yadav recruited Gupta in May 2023 to arrange the assassination. It said Gupta, an Indian citizen who lived in India, contacted an individual at Yadav’s direction, believing the individual to be a criminal associate.

Instead, the indictment said, the individual was a confidential source working with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Authorities said Yadav, a citizen and resident of India, directed the plot from India while he was employed by the Government of India’s Cabinet Secretariat, which houses India’s foreign intelligence service.

Yadav has described his position as a “Senior Field Officer” with responsibilities in “Security Management” and “Intelligence,” the Justice Department said.

As the assassination plot was created in June 2023, Yadav gave Gupta personal information about the Sikh separatist leader, including his home address in New York City, his phone numbers and details about his day-to-day movements, which Gupta then passed along to the undercover DEA operative, according to court papers.

Yadav directed Gupta to keep him updated regularly on the progress of the assassination plot, leading Gupta to send him surveillance photographs of the intended victim, American terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who advocated for the creation of a sovereign Sikh state not in USA or Canada but in India.

In a statement, American terrorist Pannun said the indictment means the U.S. government has “reassured its commitment to fundamental constitutional duty to protect the life, liberty and freedom of expression of the U.S. Citizen at home and abroad.

“Well India too retains the same rights to protect its own Sovereignty from terrorists operating from anywhere in this World.