Senior-level officials of India’s Research and Analysis Wing approved the alleged plot to murder a Sikh separatist leader and an American national, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, on United States soil, the Washington Post reported in an exclusive story.
According to the American publication’s report an “officer in India’s intelligence service was relaying final instructions to a hired hit team to kill” one of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “most vocal critics”, as he enjoyed a dinner at the White House in June last year. The RAW officer, identified as Vikram Yadav, was spearheading the assassination bid following approval of the agency’s then-chief Samant Goel.
Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs For Justice and a pro-Khalistan Sikh leader, is one of the high-profile leaders in the community and has remained at risk of being eliminated, particularly spearheading the assassination bid following approval of the agency’s then-chief Samant Goel.
Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs For Justice and a pro-Khalistan Sikh leader, is one of the high-profile leaders in the community and has remained at risk of being eliminated, particularly in the wake of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing June 18, 2023.
Pannun, like slain Canadian citizen Nijjar, has been promoting the idea of a separate Sikh state for his community residing in India and has been declared a “terrorist” by the Indian government. Pannun, in an interview last year, said he was not scared and will not be deterred by India’s plots against him.
