So far, the New York assassination plot has played out very differently from a similar case in Canada this year. In sharp contrast to how the Canada-India tiff had played out, India s response to the U.S. indictment on Wednesday was conciliatory, saying it was taking the case seriously and investigating.
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A brazen murder-for-hire plot against a U.S. citizen, which authorities say was directed by an Indian government official, outwardly seems like a development that could upend the fragile new U.S.-India partnership. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said the unnamed Indian official, whose responsibilities include security and intelligence, and Indian national Nikhil Gupta, 52, plotted this summer to kill a New York City resident who advocated for a sovereign Sikh state in northern India. They did so - exchanging messages with an undercover DEA agent about the planned assassination - even as President Joe Biden was honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state visit to the White House on June 22.
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