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New Delhi: Commenting on a report by The Washington Post dated 29 April, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Tuesday that the report makes unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations in connection with claims about the involvement of Indian agents in the alleged plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun...
In its report, the American paper suggested that Samant Goel, the former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), approved the alleged plot to kill Pannun, a US-based Sikh extremist who was designated a terrorist by the Government of India in 2020...
There is an ongoing investigation of the high-level committee set up by the Government of India to look into the security concerns shared by the US government on networks of organised criminals, terrorists and others..
In its report,The Washington Post suggested that Vikram Yadav, a R&AW official who it said had been brought in midcareer from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), was behind the plot to assassinate Sikh extremists in foreign countries, including the alleged plot against Pannun and the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June 2023...
The US first brought the connection between Yadav and the alleged plots to the notice of the Indian government in August 2023, and later President Joe Biden discussed it with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the formers visit to India last September, said the report...
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