The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer for allegedly directing a failed plot to murder a Sikh separatist and Indian critic in New York City.The US Justice Department said Vikash Yadav was a former officer in India’s Research and Analysis Wing spy service in the indictment filed on Thursday local time.Mr Yadav has been charged with murder-for-hire and money laundering offences.Washington has alleged that Indian agents were behind an attempted assassination plot against dual US-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.”The FBI will not tolerate acts of violence or other efforts to retaliate against those residing in the US for exercising their constitutionally protected rights,” FBI director Christopher Wray said in a statement.The indictment alleged Mr Yadav was working together with other people in India and abroad since May 2023 to plan the assassination of Mr Pannun.Washington alleges dual US-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun was targeted by…
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