India’s High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma last week said India was absolutely and decidedly not involved in the killing of Nijjar and Ottawa has "convicted" New Delhi even before the completion of the investigation.

A Manhattan indictment says the agent orchestrated an unsuccessful plot against a Sikh separatist, a plan linked to a killing in Canada.

U.S. officials became aware last spring of the plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist leader.

An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on U.S. soil, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday, in announcing charges against a man accused of orchestrating the attempted murder.

Federal prosecutors have charged an Indian national in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to try to assassinate a Sikh political activist in New York City, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

The employee, who described himself as “senior field officer” responsible for intelligence, agreed to pay $100,000 to a purported hit man, the federal court filing says.

The US has said it foiled an alleged plot to assassinate an American citizen in New York who advocated for a Sikh separatist state. Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, is accused of trying to hire a hitman for $100,