US-based Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
New Delhi:
India has dismissed as “unwarranted and unsubstantiated” allegations made by The Washington Post that an Indian intelligence officer employed a success crew to kill US-based Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
The report printed on Sunday alleged US intelligence businesses have assessed that the operation to kill Pannun was accredited by Samant Goel, the then chief of India’s spy company Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
“The report in question makes unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations on a serious matter,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned in an announcement.
“There is an ongoing investigation of the high-level committee set up by the government of India to look into the security concerns shared by the US government on networks of organised criminals, terrorists, and others,” Mr Jaiswal mentioned.
“Speculative and irresponsible comments on it are not helpful,” he mentioned.
India has in latest occasions indicated it should pursue terrorists even when they escape to different international locations. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has mentioned India will enter Pakistan to kill anybody who escapes over the border after attempting to hold out terrorist actions within the nation.
Mr Singh’s feedback got here on April 5 after Britain’s Guardian newspaper printed a report alleging the Indian authorities killed 20 individuals in Pakistan since 2020 as a part of a broader plan to get rid of terrorists dwelling on overseas soil.
“If they run away to Pakistan, we will enter Pakistan to kill them,” Mr Singh had mentioned. “India always wants to maintain good relations with its neighbouring countries… But if anyone shows India the angry eyes again and again, comes to India and tries to promote terrorist activities, we will not spare them,” Mr Singh mentioned.
The US Justice Department had indicted an Indian nationwide within the alleged foiled assassination plot. It alleged an Indian authorities worker (named CC-1), who was not recognized within the indictment filed in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, recruited an Indian nationwide named Nikhil Gupta to rent a hitman to allegedly perform the assassination of the Sikh Separatist, which was foiled by US authorities.
Canada has additionally alleged Indian authorities brokers had been concerned within the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia. India has recurrently identified, nevertheless, that Canada has been constantly giving house to anti-India extremists.
“The nexus between organised crime, trafficking, and gun running and extremists at an international level is a serious issue for law enforcement agencies and organisations to consider, and it is precisely for that reason that a high-level committee has been constituted, and we will obviously be guided by its results,” the MEA had mentioned in December 2023.