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India’s Hitman Middleman Arrested for Planning Assassination of US Citizen Extradited from the Czech Republic.

“an identified Indian government employee (“CC-1 “), working together with others in India and elsewhere, including NIKHIL GUPTA, a/k/a “Nick,” the defendant (“GUPTA”), directed a plot to assassinate, on U.S. soil, an attorney and political activist, who is a U.S. citizen of lndian origin residing in New York City (the “Victim”)… In or about May 2023, CC-1 recruited GUPTA to orchestrate the assassination of the Victim in the United States. GUPTA, an Indian national who also resides in India, is an associate of CC-1 and has described his involvement in international narcotics and weapons trafficking in his communications with CC-1 and others…. Beginning in or about early May 2023, in a series of telephonic and electronic communications between CC-1 and GUPTA over encrypted applications, CC-1 asked GUPTA to arrange the murder of the Victim in exchange for CC-1 ‘s assistance in securing the dismissal of a criminal case against GUPTA in India. GUPTA agreed to orchestrate the assassination. In addition to their electronic communications, GUPTA also met CC-1 in-person in New Delhi in furtherance of the plot….” https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1326501/dl?inline


“On or about June 19, the day after the Nijjar murder, Gupta told the UC that Nijjar “was also the target” and “we have so many targets.” Gupta added that, in light of Nijjar’s murder, there was “now no need to wait” on killing the Victim. On or about June 20, CC-1 sent Gupta a news article about the Victim and messaged Gupta, “[i]t’s [a] priority now.” Gupta is charged with murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. Each count carries a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. The DEA’s New York Division and the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI’s New York Field Office are investigating the case, with valuable assistance provided by the DEA’s Special Operations Division, DEA’s Vienna Country Office, FBI’s Prague Country Office, Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, and Czech Republic’s National Drug Headquarters... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-connection-foiled-plot-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york

“U.S. spy agencies have more tentatively assessed that Modi’s national security adviser, Ajit Doval, was probably aware of RAW’s plans to kill Sikh activists, but officials emphasized that no smoking gun proof has emerged…. He also exhibited a willingness to engage with the criminal underworld. In 2005, after retiring as head of India’s domestic intelligence service, he was inadvertently detained by Mumbai police while meeting with a reputed gangster. Doval was seeking to enlist one crime boss to assassinate another, according to media reports later confirmed by senior Indian officials. Before being tapped as national security adviser by Modi in 2014, Doval publicly called for India’s security apparatus to shift from “defense” to “defensive offense” against groups threatening India from other countries, especially Pakistan.” https://web.archive.org/web/20240601151926/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/

“U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that the plan to hire a hit team to assassinate Sikh activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun — which was ultimately thwarted by U.S. authorities — was approved by Samant Goel, the chief of the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, at the time. Vikram Yadav, a RAW officer — who was linked to the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June [2023] — handled the plan to kill Pannun and gave instructions to a hired assassin, said the report — which the Post said was based on interviews with more than three dozen current and former senior security officials in Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, India and the United States….” https://www.voanews.com/a/india-rejects-washington-post-report-on-alleged-plot-to-kill-us-based-sikh-activist/7593833.html

The jail reportedly has rats of all varieties – rodent rats, as well as human rats:
“The part they had her in is a place where people literally crack. They cop out or they start cooperating with the government as soon as they get there,” Campbell, 38, said.”
See: “Ghislaine Maxwell revered by inmates for not working with feds while in worst part of jail: ‘She didn’t crack’” By Jon Levine and Matthew Sedacca https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/ghislaine-maxwell-revered-at-brooklyn-jail-inmate/

“Name: NIKHIL GUPTA
Register Number: 20301-511
Age: 52
Race: Asian
Sex: Male
Release Date: UNKNOWN
Located At: MDC Brooklyn”
https://www.bop.gov/mobile/find_inmate/byname.jsp#inmate_results
https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/

The above Nikhil Gupta should NOT be confused with this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikhil_Gupta
There are so many Guptas that India has trouble sorting them out.

“Indian Government Employee Directed a Plot from India to Murder U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist Movement
Today in the Southern District of New York, a superseding indictment was unsealed alleging murder-for-hire charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta, aka Nick, 52, in connection with his participation in a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. citizen in New York City. Czech authorities arrested and detained Gupta on June 30, 2023 pursuant to the bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and the Czech Republic.

According to court documents, earlier this year, an Indian government employee (CC-1), working together with others, including Gupta, in India and elsewhere, directed a plot to assassinate on U.S. soil an attorney and political activist who is a U.S. citizen of Indian origin residing in New York City (the Victim).

Gupta is an Indian national who resides in India, is an associate of CC-1 and has described his involvement in international narcotics and weapons trafficking in his communications with CC-1 and others. CC-1 is an Indian government agency employee who has variously described himself as a “Senior Field Officer” with responsibilities in “Security Management” and “Intelligence,” and who also has referenced previously serving in India’s Central Reserve Police Force and receiving “officer[] training” in “battle craft” and “weapons.” CC-1 directed the assassination plot from India.

In or about May 2023, CC-1 recruited Gupta to orchestrate the assassination of the Victim in the United States. The Victim is a vocal critic of the Indian government and leads a U.S.-based organization that advocates for the secession of Punjab, a state in northern India that is home to a large population of Sikhs, an ethnoreligious minority group in India. The Victim has publicly called for some or all of Punjab to secede from India and establish a Sikh sovereign state called Khalistan, and the Indian government has banned the Victim and his separatist organization from India.

At CC-1’s direction, Gupta contacted an individual whom Gupta believed to be a criminal associate, but who was in fact a confidential source working with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (the CS), for assistance in contracting a hitman to murder the Victim in New York City. The CS introduced Gupta to a purported hitman, who was in fact a DEA undercover officer (the UC). CC-1 subsequently agreed in dealings brokered by Gupta to pay the UC $100,000 to murder the Victim. On or about June 9, CC-1 and Gupta arranged for an associate to deliver $15,000 in cash to the UC as an advance payment for the murder. CC-1’s associate then delivered the $15,000 to the UC in Manhattan.

In or about June 2023, in furtherance of the assassination plot, CC-1 provided Gupta with personal information about the Victim, including the Victim’s home address in New York City, phone numbers associated with the Victim, and details about the Victim’s day-to-day conduct, which Gupta then passed to the UC. CC-1 directed Gupta to provide regular updates on the progress of the assassination plot, which Gupta accomplished by forwarding to CC-1, among other things, surveillance photographs of the Victim. Gupta directed the UC to carry out the murder as soon as possible, but Gupta also specifically instructed the UC not to commit the murder around the time of anticipated engagements scheduled to occur in the ensuing weeks between high-level U.S. and Indian government officials.

On or about June 18, masked gunmen murdered Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia, Canada. Nijjar was an associate of the Victim, and like the Victim, was a leader of the Sikh separatist movement and an outspoken critic of the Indian government. On or about June 19, the day after the Nijjar murder, Gupta told the UC that Nijjar “was also the target” and “we have so many targets.” Gupta added that, in light of Nijjar’s murder, there was “now no need to wait” on killing the Victim. On or about June 20, CC-1 sent Gupta a news article about the Victim and messaged Gupta, “[i]t’s [a] priority now.”

Gupta is charged with murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. Each count carries a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The DEA’s New York Division and the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI’s New York Field Office are investigating the case, with valuable assistance provided by the DEA’s Special Operations Division, DEA’s Vienna Country Office, FBI’s Prague Country Office, Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, and Czech Republic’s National Drug Headquarters.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Camille L. Fletcher, Ashley C. Nicolas, and Alexander Li for the Southern District of New York are prosecuting the case with assistance from Trial Attorneys Christopher Cook and Robert McCullers of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, as well as Trial Attorney A.J. Dixon of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Nikhil Gupta Superseding Indictment https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1326501/dl?inline
Updated December 4, 2023 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-connection-foiled-plot-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york

India claims to have people in place to “eliminate enemies”:

“Gurpatwant Singh Pannun Assassination Plot: Accused Nikhil Gupta Claims New Delhi’s Interference” Story by Priyanshu Priya https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/newsIndia/gurpatwant-singh-pannun-assassination-plot-accused-nikhil-gupta-claims-new-delhi-s-interference/ar-BB1nsHty

According to a former RAW (Research & Analysis Wing) agent, as reported by the pro-India Eurasian Times: “India doesn’t send commandos to foreign countries to eliminate enemies; there are already people who are always ready to work for us for whatever the reasons or lure,” reveals an ex-spy who has long worked for India’s ‘dreaded’ intelligence agency RAW (Research and Analysis Wing).” See: “Indian Spy Agency RAW Is The New Mossad; Ex-Officials Talk About Crack Team’s Ops In Terrorizing Terrorists” July 11, 2023 By: Neeraj Rajput https://web.archive.org/web/20230711094249/https://www.eurasiantimes.com/indian-spy-agency-raw-is-the-new-mossad-ex-officials-talk/

Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW or RAW) – India’s version of the CIA – was formed in 1968, which was around the time that the United States decided to give affirmative action to Asian-Indians, all while letting many more immigrate from India. The “diaspora” includes Asian-Indians in the USA, and Canada:
“The present R&AW objectives include:

* Monitoring the political, military, economic and scientific developments in countries which have a direct bearing on India’s national security and the formulation of its foreign policy.
* Moulding international public opinion and influence foreign governments with the help of the strong and vibrant Indian diaspora.
* Covert Operations to safe guard India’s National interests.
* Anti–Terror Operations and neutralising terror elements posing a threat to India.” Excerpt from Wikipedia “Research and Analysis Wing” 25 May 2018 version
https://archive.li/Cyf4u https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

A Washington “Post report said U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that the plan to hire a hit team to assassinate Sikh activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun — which was ultimately thwarted by U.S. authorities — was approved by Samant Goel, the chief of the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, at the time. https://web.archive.org/web/20240601151926/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/ Vikram Yadav, a RAW officer — who was linked to the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June [2023] — handled the plan to kill Pannun and gave instructions to a hired assassin, said the report — which the Post said was based on interviews with more than three dozen current and former senior security officials in Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, India and the United States….

Accusations of RAW involvement in killings on foreign soil first surfaced in September when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was “actively pursuing credible allegations” that Indian agents were potentially linked to the killing of Nijjar, a Canadian citizen. Nijjar was shot dead in his car by two masked gunmen outside a Sikh gurdwara (place of worship) in British Columbia.
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In November, a senior Biden administration official said the United States had thwarted a plot to kill Sikh separatist leader Pannun while announcing charges against an Indian man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-connection-foiled-plot-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york
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Monday’s Post report, headlined “An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India,” aid Indian RAW operative Yadav’s identity and affiliation, which had not previously been reported, provide the “most explicit evidence to date” that the assassination plan “was directed from within the Indian spy service.”

According to several current and former U.S. and Indian security officials, RAW agent Yadav forwarded details about Pannun, including his New York address, to the would-be assassins and wrote that the assassination was a “priority now,” the Post report said.

As soon as the would-be assassins could confirm that Pannun, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, was home, “it will be a go-ahead from us,” the Post quoted Yadav as saying.

Senior Indian officials named in the Post report and accused of being aware of the RAW operation in the United States did not respond to it, the newspaper said.
India dismisses allegations

Although India dismisses the allegations that it tried to assassinate Pannun, it recently indicated that it would pursue terrorists on foreign soil….”
See: “India rejects Washington Post report on alleged plot to kill US-based Sikh activist” May 01, 2024 1:56 PM By Shaikh Azizur Rahman https://www.voanews.com/a/india-rejects-washington-post-report-on-alleged-plot-to-kill-us-based-sikh-activist/7593833.html

Trump has promised to give the Republican Hindu Coalition anything it wants because they have $$$$$. The head of the Republican Hindu coalition Shalabh Kumar “has described Modi as his idol….Mr. Kumar has worked closely with Steve Bannon… the Kumar family spent over $4 million in the Trump campaign….” https://web.archive.org/web/20230327141511/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalabh_Kumar https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/trump-hosts-major-hindu-festival-party-promises-to-accelerate-indias-colonization-of-the-usa-by-prioritizing-green-cards-for-india-and-more-bannons-hindu-occult-kali-yug/