Indian State terrorist confesses govt involvement in “political” American Sikh assassination attempt

The Indian State terrorist who tried to arrange the assassination of an American Sikh activist last year has confirmed it was a “mission assigned by the Indian government”, as part of an extradition appeal which has now been rejected.

Nikhil Gupta, the known trafficker and criminal, who was arrested in the Czech Republic last June for organizing an assassination attempt on New York based lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, confirmed the involvement of Narendra Modi’s Indian government within an appeal against extradition to the USA, which has now been rejected by the Czech Republic’s highest court.

The Czech Constitutional Court rejected Gupta’s challenge (22.05.24) against rulings by the Municipal Court and High Court of Prague that allowed his extradition to the USA. The Municipal Court in Prague approved Gupta’s extradition to the US in November 2023 after he was first arrested in June. A similar ruling by the High Court in Prague in January 2024 also backed the US request to extradite him. Despite this, Gupta’s legal team, who have met with India Consular services on several occasions, filed the petition to the country’s Constitutional Court.

The petition was based on the claim that the “political nature of the act he was accused of…was not sufficiently assessed” by Czech authorities, with Gupta seemingly suggesting the attempt to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun should be classified as a diplomatic mission, saying he “was hired by an Indian government agent who is in charge of security matters and is therefore likely to be on a mission assigned by the Indian government”.

Gupta’s target Pannun is the General Counsel of the Sikhs For Justice advocacy group, and lead of their global democratic non-binding Khalistan (free Sikh homeland) Referendum campaign, for which India has labelled him a wanted terrorist. The referendum has seen hundreds of thousands of diaspora Sikhs participate, showing widespread support for Khalistan, based on the idea of a sovereign Sikh ruled Punjab carved out of India.

Last year, India seemingly decided to begin assassinating prominent Khalistan figures, with the assassination of Paramjit Singh Panjwar in Pakistan in May and then Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June in Canada (Surrey, BC, Vancouver area). UK Sikh groups continue to also maintain that Avtar Singh Khanda was also poisoned as part of the assassination campaign. Many also say the campaign has extended into 2024 in India, with activist Rattandeep Singh and journalist Preet Singh Saini both dying suspiciously in Punjab. A Guardian newspaper investigation revealed it is almost certain that Panjwar was killed by Islamic Extremists used by the Indian government to target Sikh dissenters.

Within a week of Nijjar’s killing in Canada, US authorities had arrested Gupta after he paid an undercover FBI agent to kill Pannun. In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed India’s involvement in the assassination of Nijjar, prompting a global geopolitical shift in India’s perception, which was soon added to by US revelations of the foiled plot to kill Pannun.

The extradition still requires an official signing off from Czech Republic Justice Minister Pavel Blažek, which is expected to be a formality.

Sikhs the world over remain following the North American prosecution of Indian State terrorists who were directed to target Sikh activists, with four also in custody in Canada.