A Pakistani man with ties to Iran has been convicted in a US court for plotting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump and other American politicians.
India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States seriously, the White House has said but refrained from commenting on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe into the matter and the criminal case filed by the Department of Justice.
Gupta, 54, pleaded guilty to charges of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, in connection with his efforts to murder Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York.
The National Investigation Agency has picked a key Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative who was allegedly planning the assassination of prominent Hindu leaders. Known as the Bangalore assassination plot, the case made headlines when several persons were picked up allegedly for plotting the assassination of pro-Hindu journalists and other leaders.
The probe into the assassination plan against certain right-wing political leaders and journalists, allegedly hatched by some Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, seems to have fizzled out.
The Bengaluru Police was left red-faced after Ajaz Ahmed Mirza, a junior scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation's Centre for Airborne Systems who was arrested in connection with a major assassination plot, was let off by a special court on Thursday
Mohammad Farhatullah Ghori is one of the most wanted men in the list of both the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Interpol. His name has now cropped up during the investigation in the Bangalore Assassination Plot, and this would get the Gujarat police interested in the case too.
The police on Friday picked up four men from Hyderabad in connection with the terror module that was recently busted in Bangalore. One of them is Obaid Ur Rehmanan, a BCom student at the Anwar Uloom College and a resident of Baba Nagar in the Old City.
A mobile shop owner from Raichur in Karnataka has been arrested as part of state-wide arrests being conducted in connection with recently-uncovered assassination plot.
Investigators of the National Investigation Agency, who have now taken up the investigation of the confusing Bengaluru assassination plot, which involved the assassination of various important persons who they thought were anti-Islam have their work cut out for them. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Two individuals, Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, were arrested from Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York on Thursday.
The Bangalore police, which busted a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of assassinations, on Monday arrested a cyber cafe owner by the name Omar.
The probe into the alleged plot to target politicians including members of Parliament, members of Legislative Assembly and also some journalists by 15 terror suspects belonging to Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami who were nabbed by city police, has been handed over to the National Investigative Agency, a top police official said.
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Over the weekend, one senior US official told CNN, the Israelis had an opportunity to kill Iran's supreme leader.
The US Justice Department on Thursday charged Yadav for his role in the assassination plot.
This is the first time many suspects, who were reportedly planning to assassinate individual personalities with hand-held weapons, have been arrested. It is not clear why they chose the targeted persons for assassination, says B Raman
Rubbishing the allegations by the United States on India for a foiled assassination plot against pro-Khalistan radical Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington, DC has not yet provided any reliable evidence of the involvement of Indian citizens in the case.
The Bangalore police, which recently busted a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of assassinations, has detained another suspect. The police have seized a cell phone, laptop and Rs 10,000 in cash from the detained suspect -- Dr Nayeem Siddiqui.
Quoting officials, The Washington Post said, the foiled assassination was part of an escalating campaign of aggression by RAW against the Indian diaspora in Asia, Europe and North America.
The National Investigation Agency is on the look out for 'Motu Doctor' who is alleged to be involved in the plot to kill prominent Hindus leaders across the country.
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A high-powered enquiry committee set up by the Indian government has recommended legal action against an unnamed individual after probing activities of organized criminal groups and terrorist organizations that undermined the security interests of both India and the US. The probe was ordered after the US alleged an attempt to kill Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun by Indian agents in New York in 2023. The committee, which received full cooperation from US authorities, has also recommended functional improvements in systems and procedures to strengthen India's response capability.
The suspect, identified as Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a checkpoint about a half-mile from an entrance to the rally, police said.
Vikas Yadav, 39, was employed by the Cabinet Secretariat, which houses India's foreign intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the federal prosecutors claimed on Thursday in an indictment filed in a US court in New York.
Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina has alleged that there was a conspiracy to kill her and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana, the moment she was ousted from power.
Vikas Yadav, a former Indian government official charged by the United States authorities for his alleged role in a foiled plot to assassinate Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, was arrested by Delhi Police in December last year in an unrelated extortion and kidnapping case, police sources said.
The United States had a 'productive meeting' with visiting officials of the India Enquiry Committee, a State Department official said on Wednesday, adding they were satisfied with the cooperation from the Indian side.
The United States had received intelligence from a human source about an Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump weeks before the assassination attempt against the former US President on Saturday, according to national security officials.
'The CBI did a wonderful job of tracking down the killers, but at the end of the day, all the hard work went for a toss.' 'If we had caught them alive, the operation would have been successful completely.'
A day after The Washington Post named an Indian official for allegedly plotting to eliminate Sikh extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, India on Tuesday said the report made 'unwarranted and unsubstantiated' imputations on a serious matter.
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At a press conference in Bengaluru on Saturday the Congress played an audio clip, claiming that the BJP candidate from Chittapur Manikanth Rathod used derogatory language for Kharge and could be heard talking about eliminating him and his family.
The United States is waiting to see the results of the Indian investigations on the murder allegations.
He is expected to be produced before a federal court in New York on Monday.
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It is important for India to pay close attention to both the tone and substance of authoritative remarks coming out of Pakistan, explains former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
Nikhil Gupta, 52, has been charged with murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Matthew G Olsen said.
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing for January 4 2024, of the habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Nikhil Gupta, accused by the United States of conspiring to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a India designated terrorist, against his arrest and ongoing extradition proceedings in the Czech Republic.
India on Tuesday strongly rejected the claims, saying that the report made "unwarranted and unsubstantiated" imputations on a serious matter and that an investigation into the case was underway.
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