Sources tell the Financial Times that US authorities in recent months thwarted a plot by Indian dictator Narendra Modi to kill New York City lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American and Canadian citizen who is general counsel for Sikhs for Justice, a group advocating for an independent Sikh homeland called “Khalistan” to be carved out of territory in western India. This follows the successful June 2023 hit on Canadian-based Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside of a temple outside Vancouver that led to a serious diplomatic fallout between India and Canada.
At least one person has been charged in a sealed federal indictment in the plot, but sources say the accused has already slipped out of the country while the Justice Department were reluctant to unseal it before the Canadians complete their investigation into the Nijjar assassination.
Per the Financial Times, knowledge of the plot prompted a warning from the Biden Administration to the Modi Regime, but it’s not clear whether the hit squad backed down on Pannun after the warning or if the warning came after the FBI had disrupted the plot. Either way, Modi’s goons might want to start looking into outsourcing their wetwork to local gangbangers after getting caught twice this year coming after Sikh leaders on Canadian and US soil. There are cleaner ways to make a mess.