How Indian intelligence officer allegedly recruited businessman to kill Canadian activist
Global News
Dozens of newly-released court documents shed light on an alleged plot to kill a Canadian active in the Khalistan movement.
Newly released court documents have detailed how a senior Indian intelligence officer allegedly recruited a businessman to assassinate a Canadian pro-Khalistan activist.
The unsealed files said Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national suspected of drugs and weapons trafficking, had admitted he was asked at a meeting in New Delhi to conduct the killing.
The target was Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a lawyer with Canadian and U.S. citizenship who heads Sikhs For Justice, a New York-based group that advocates for Khalistan.
Pannun was a close associate of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., on June 18, 2023 — a killing Canada has blamed on India.
Both victims were involved in a symbolic referendum on Khalistan, the independent state they had campaigned to establish in what is now India’s Sikh-majority Punjab.
India has long complained that supporters of the Khalistan movement operate in Canada. Meanwhile, Ottawa has accused India of violating Canada’s sovereignty by conducting a killing on Canadian soil.
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According to documents tabled in U.S. District Court, Gupta confessed his involvement in the plot to kill Pannun in a van after he was arrested at Prague airport on June 30, 2023.
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