{"id":37630,"date":"2023-12-20T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T08:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/indias-modi-willing-to-look-into-us-assassination-plot-claim\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T08:08:05","slug":"indias-modi-willing-to-look-into-us-assassination-plot-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/indias-modi-willing-to-look-into-us-assassination-plot-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Modi willing to \u2018look into\u2019 US assassination plot claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he will investigate any evidence provided regarding an alleged plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States, the <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/160235af-1584-4ec7-8aad-a3de70753f30\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US Justice Department last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1793768\">charged an Indian citizen<\/a> with plotting to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, alleging an Indian government official was also involved in the planning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone gives us any information, we would definitely look into it,\u201d Modi said in his first comments on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a citizen of ours has done anything good or bad, we are ready to look into it. Our commitment is to the rule of law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1797432\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>India\u2019s foreign ministry had earlier said it set up a \u201chigh-level\u201d inquiry committee \u201cto look into all the relevant aspects of the matter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On November 29, the US Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1793624\">unsealed<\/a> murder-for-hire charges against Nikhil Gupta, 52, \u201cin connection with his participation in a foiled plot to assassinate a US citizen\u201d of Indian origin in New York City, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department said the man allegedly targeted in the killing \u201cis a vocal critic of the Indian government and leads a US-based organisation that advocates for the secession of Punjab,\u201d a northern Indian state with a large population of Sikhs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1798311\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Gupta, who lives in India, was arrested by authorities in the Czech Republic under US extradition orders.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s comments come after the White House said it was treating an alleged plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist in the United States with \u201cutmost seriousness,\u201d and had raised the issue with the Indian government.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1791721\">reported<\/a> that same day that US authorities had thwarted a conspiracy to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US and Canadian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Canada and India had a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1782875\">diplomatic row<\/a> after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in September linked New Delhi to the June killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, also a Sikh separatist.<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi called the Canadian allegations \u201cabsurd\u201d. Modi also told the <em>Financial Times<\/em> that India was \u201cdeeply concerned about the activities of certain extremist groups based overseas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cthese elements, under the guise of freedom of expression, have engaged in intimidation and incited violence\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he will investigate any evidence provided regarding an alleged plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The US Justice Department last month charged an Indian citizen with plotting to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, alleging an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/201151094d900e1.jpg?r=115149","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}