The United States is calling for “significant accountability” in the investigation into Pannun’s assassination attempt

NEW DELHI: The US has said it would not be fully satisfied until there is “significant accountability” as a result of India’s investigations into the foiled murder-for-hire plot against Khalistani radical Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil.

“We continue to wait and want to see accountability based on the results of this investigation, and certainly the United States will not be fully satisfied until there is meaningful accountability as a result of this investigation,” the spokesman said Wednesday US State Department Deputy Vedant Patel. .

He said this in the context of a visit to the United States by an Indian committee of inquiry into the case for talks last week.

Of the two main actors in the alleged plot, Nikhil Gupta is in a US prison, having been extradited by Prague months after his arrest. The US recently named former RAW field officer Vikash Yadav as Gupta’s handler and the alleged mastermind of the conspiracy. Yadav no longer works for RAW.

In an unrelated case of extortion and kidnapping, Yadav was arrested by the Delhi Police in December last year and lodged in Tihar jail for over four months until he got regular bail.

Patel said there was “valuable engagement with the Indian inquiry committee last week”.

Information was also exchanged between “our two governments to further our respective investigations,” he said. Patel noted that the US understands that the Indian investigative committee will continue its investigation.