'It's good and appropriate': US on Indian investigation into alleged foiled plot to kill Sikh separatist Pannun - Punjabi News

Published on: 01 Dec 2023 at 10:22 AM

‘It’s good and appropriate’: US on Indian investigation into alleged foiled plot to kill Sikh separatist Pannun

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Tel Aviv [Israel], December 1

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called US Justice Department’s indictment of an Indian national for his alleged involvement in a foiled plot to assassinate Gurpatwant Pannun, a US-based leader of the Sikh Separatist Movement, an ongoing legal matter. He said the Indian government’s decision to investigate the matter was “good and appropriate” and added that the US looked forward to seeing the results.

Speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv, Blinken said that the US government has raised the matter directly with the Indian government in the past weeks.

Asked about the US charging an Indian national in murder for hire scheme targeting a Sikh separatist, Blinken said, “With regard to India, first, this is an ongoing legal matter. So you’ll understand I can’t comment on it in detail. I can say that this is something we take very seriously. A number of us have raised this directly with the Indian Government in past weeks. The government announced today that it was conducting an investigation, and that’s good and appropriate, and we look forward to seeing the results.”