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Police in the Czech Republic have released footage of the extradition of Indian national Nikhil Gupta to the United States in Prague on June 14.
Last November, U.S. federal prosecutors charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta with working with an Indian government employee
The United States still expects India to be held accountable for its role in an Indian government employee's attempted assassination of an American citizen on U.S. soil last summer, an official said.
“We continue to expect the Indian government to investigate the role of an Indian government employee in an attempted assassination of a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil last summer,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters at his briefing. responsible for the role.
“We continue to raise our concerns directly with senior levels of the Indian government,” he said. However, Patel declined to comment on a news report that Canadian authorities claimed to have arrested five Indian nationals who planned to target a Sikh separatist at a wedding.
“As this relates to the news outside Canada that you mentioned, I would recommend that you ask the Canadian government about the issues that are occurring within its law enforcement system,” the official said. “We continue to raise our concerns directly with high-level officials in the Indian government,” he said.
In November, U.S. federal prosecutors charged Indian citizen Nikhil Gupta with working with an Indian government employee to foil the assassination of Gurpatwant Singh Pannon in New York. Pannun's conspiracy. Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic last June and extradited to the United States on June 14.
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