A murder-for-hire plot involving an Indian government official allegedly included plans to assassinate an individual in Nepal or Pakistan, according to newly filed court documents in New York, reported .

The US Department of Justice had previously accused Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, of attempting to assassinate a US-based Sikh activist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, in New York.

The plot was reportedly orchestrated by Vikash Yadav, an officer in India’s external intelligence agency, RAW. Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic in June 2023 and extradited to the US, while Yadav remains in India.

In federal court documents filed this week, US prosecutors linked Gupta and Yadav to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh activist murdered in Canada in 2023. Both Nijjar and Pannun were

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