The Justice Department announced charges against a former Indian government employee in the murder plot against dual U.S.-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a prominent Sikh separatist. In a statement Thursday,

The case concerns a murder-for-hire conspiracy involving two defendants, Vikash Yadav and Nikhil Gupta, who were allegedly plotting to assassinate

The former Indian government employee, Vikash Yadav, orchestrated a plot to kill an advocate of the Khalistan separatist movement last year, prosecutors said.

Indian official Vikash Yadav with murder-for-hire and money laundering in a failed attempt to assassinate US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Co-conspirator Nikhil Gupta, already extradited, faces similar charges.

An Indian intelligence official has been indicted for his role in a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader in the United States, the Justice Department said Thursday.

A former Indian government official charged in the United States this week for allegedly directing a foiled murder plot had been arrested in New Delhi in December in an attempted murder case, according to court records and a police officer.

The US Justice Department unsealed the indictment of Vikash Yadav, 39, alleging he led a plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York.

In this episode of Five Live, the focus is on Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun murder plot case.

An indictment unsealed reveals U.S. charges against ex-Indian intelligence officer Vikash Yadav for involvement in an assassination plot in New York.