The US said Nikhil Gupta was in cahoots with an Indian government employee that it addressed as “CC-1”, who, in India and elsewhere, directed a plot to assassinate on US soil a “political activist”, who is a US citizen of Indian origin residing in New York City.
India-Canada Row News: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented on the US Department of Justice charging an Indian, Nikhil Gupta, for murder-for-hire . He said that this is what they have been talking about from the beginning. Trudeau added that "India needs to take this seriously". To this, India retaliated and also issued a statement against him.
The 52-year-old Indian national allegedly planned to murder US citizen Pannun in New York City. As a result of the bilateral extradition treaty between the US and the Czech Republic, he was apprehended by Czech authorities on June 30.