Key Points
US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has acknowledged that India and the United States were working together in the investigation of the alleged foiled assassination plot against Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun..
Eric Garcetti said that the American system protects free speech for better or for worse while responding to questions on the Khalistani marches and the threats issued by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun..
The interview comes days after the Joe Biden administration said the United States was working with the Indian government to hold accountable those behind a plot to kill the Khalistani separatist on American soil..
US federal prosecutors have charged that Nikhil Gupta was working with an Indian government employee and had agreed to pay an assassin USD 1,00,000 to kill Pannun, who lives in New York City..
The envoy, however, also emphasised that a red line should not be crossed and no government employee of any country can be involved in an assassination plot of a foreign citizen..
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