Expecting accountability from India: US on report naming RAW officer in alleged assassination plot
‘The Washington Post’ report made ‘unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations on a serious matter’, New Delhi had said.
The United States on Tuesday said that it expects accountability from the Indian government in relation to the security concerns raised by Washington regarding an alleged plot by New Delhi to assassinate Sikh separatist leaders in North America.
“We continue to expect accountability from the Government of India based on the results of the Indian inquiry committee’s work, and we are regularly working with them and inquiring for additional updates,” Vedant Patel, the US State Department deputy spokesperson, said at a press conference. “We’ll also continue to raise our concerns directly with the Indian government at senior levels.”
The development came after a report by The Washington Post on Monday identified Vikram Yadav as the officer of the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s foreign intelligence agency, who was allegedly involved in the alleged plot to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States and in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, another Sikh separatist leader, in Canada in June.
Pannun, like Nijjar, is an advocate for Khalistan, an independent state for Sikhs.
On Tuesday, India’s external affairs ministry said that the report by the US newspaper makes “unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations on a serious matter”.
The Centre in November had said that it has constituted a high-level inquiry committee to examine inputs from the United States about an alleged foiled plot to...
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