Vikash Yadav directed a plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, the U.S. indictment says.

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

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.

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.

The United States and Canada have worked together to investigate what they say is the Indian government’s campaign against Sikh separatists.