The US Justice Department said that a 52-year-old man worked with an Indian govt employee, whose responsibilities included security and intelligence, on the plot to assassinate a New York City residen

The remarks by Trudeau came after Nikhil Gupta, 52, was charged on Wednesday with murder-for-hire in connection with his participation in a foiled plot to assassinate a US citizen in New York City.

The charges are rooted in a decades-old dispute over the demand by some Sikhs for a sovereign state known as Khalistan carved out of northern India.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun spoke to Newsweek after U.S. authorities charged an Indian man with an alleged plot to kill him on U.S. soil.

The U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist at the behest of an unnamed

An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on U.S. soil, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.