Washington: The United States said it’s looking forward to the result of the Indian investigation into the allegations that an Indian official was involved in an alleged plot to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil.
The US federal prosecutors in November last year charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta of working with an Indian government agent in the foiled plot to kill Pannun in New York.
Pannun, wanted in India on terror charges, holds dual citizenship of the US and Canada. Gupta, who was arrested in the Czech Republic in June last year, was extradited to the US on June 14.
“They (Indian officials) have announced that they are conducting an inquiry, and we will look forward to the results of that inquiry,” State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters at his daily news conference on Wednesday.
He was responding to a question on members of the Foreign Senate Foreign Relations Committee writing a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for a strong diplomatic response on the Indian government’s involvement in an alleged assassination attempt on a US citizen on US soil.
Following the allegations, India appointed a high-level inquiry committee to look into the inputs provided by the US on the plot.
Miller said, “We will respond to those members privately as always. I won’t speak to that here. But as pertains to the other issue, when it first arose, we made clear that we had raised it with the government of India and told them that we expected a full investigation to be conducted.”
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