Officials said that senior officials of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had insisted on prosecuting Yadav. Washington Post, a move that would have implicated RAW in a murder-for-hire plot. Justice Department officials participating in the White House deliberations sided with those calling for criminal charges against Yadav.
In November last year, the United States Attorney’s Office for Southern New York confirmed that US law enforcement had foiled a plot to assassinate Pannun on US soil. The lawyer’s office filed charges against an Indian national named Nikhil Gupta, who is said to have planned the murder in collaboration with an alleged Indian government employee.
At that time, the employee was called CC-1, who allegedly conspired to assassinate Pannun from India. Washington Post The report claims that CC-1 is Vikram Yadav.
The US alleged that in May 2023, CC-1 recruited Gupta to arrange for Pannun’s murder on US soil in exchange for assurances of dismissal of the criminal case against him. you can read The QuintDetailed story on US indictment Here,
