The Justice Department said a former Indian intelligence officer plotted to murder a Sikh separatist leader in New York City last summer.

The indictment against Vikash Yadav points to a direct link between the Indian government and what prosecutors say was a murder-for-hire scheme on American soil.

A former Indian government employee was charged Thursday in New York with murder-for-hire for his role in directing a foiled plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist and critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration,

The US has charged a former Indian spy for allegedly planning assassination of a Sikh separatist and Indian critic in New York City. Washington has alleged that Indian agents were behind the plot against dual US-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

The FBI has warned against retaliation aimed at U.S. residents, with the indictment highlighting Yadav's past role in India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Washington's claims of Indian agents' involvement in the plot.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against an Indian government employee in connection with a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader living in New York City

The US Justice department has charged Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence officer, in the alleged plot.

The Justice Department charged Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence officer, in a foiled assassination plot on U.S. soil, after Biden administration officials grew frustrated with India’s own investigation into wrongdoing.

Federal prosecutors charged an employee of India’s intelligence service with allegedly directing an audacious plot to kill a vocal Sikh activist in New York, an escalation in a long-running investigation that has threatened a rift in the U.