Politics

David Touger declined to comment after the hearing

Violence tied to the movement peaked decades ago

Prosecutors said Vikash Yadav remains at large

Gupta forwarded the video to the informant and undercover agent

Canadian officials gathered information including intercepted communications of Indian diplomats that shed light on the plot

Biden did not know an Indian official had just approved the assassination plot on U.S. soil

Nikhil Gupta was arrested and detained in the Czech Republic days after the state dinner and brought to the United States in 2024

The Indian government claimed Sikhs in Canada pose a national security threat to India

The event was aimed at wooing the Indian leader away from China and Russia

Biden and Trump have avoided addressing the case in public

Indian nationals were arrested and charged in connection with the killing and Trudeau blamed the Indian government

The Indian government has rejected accusations that it was involved in the plot

The indictment against Nikhil Gupta outlined a scheme in which he was recruited in May 2023 by Vikash Yadav to arrange killing of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

The most fraught moment occurred in 2023 when a Sikh cleric was murdered in Canada

Jay Clayton said the message to all nefarious foreign actors should be clear: Steer clear of the United States and our people

Officials in the U.S. and Canada have argued the Indian government ordered killings of Sikh separatists

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is a U.S. citizen and proponent of independence for Punjab

Nikhil Gupta is scheduled to be sentenced on May 29

The case against Nikhil Gupta echoed a similar scheme that resulted in killing a Sikh cleric in Canada

Nikhil Gupta was accused of plotting to assassinate a U.S. citizen