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Washington India has conveyed to the US that it has arrested the person identified as CC1 in a US Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, which had implicated this person of directing an assassination plot of an American citizen on American soil, a US official has told HT.S)..
CC1, India has also told the US, is no longer a government official and the high-level enquiry committee set up in the aftermath of the allegations is continuing to investigate this persons other linkages..
Members of this Indian enquiry committee are travelling to Washington DC and will meet American officials to share their findings and gain insights into the US investigation into the case on Tuesday, the official confirmed to HT..
The DOJ indictment identified CC1 as a serving government of India official and implicated this person as directing the alleged assassination plot against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a designated terrorist in India who happened to be an American national, in New York in June 2023..
The released-and-then-deleted US statement said, An Indian Enquiry Committee that was established to investigate activities of certain organized criminals is actively investigating the individual who was identified last year in the Department of Justices indictment as an Indian government employee who directed a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. citizen in New York City..
