Nikhil Gupta, suspect in plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, pleads guilty

New Delhi, 14/2: Nikhil Gupta, a businessman from India currently incarcerated in the United States, pleaded guilty on Friday to being involved with a plot to assassinate Khalistani Sikh terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York.

Gupta had been arrested in the Czech Republic in June 2023 and had been extradited to the US in June 2024. He had been accused by the US prosecutors of trying to hire a hitman to kill Pannun, a leader of the Sikhs for Justice, in New York, at thebehest of Vikas Yadav, a former officer of the Research and Analytical Wing (RAW), the external intelligence agency of India.