India, US move past tensions over Pannun 'plot'

A joint fact-sheet released by the White House 0n 17 June on the meeting between Sullivan and Doval has no mention of Pannun.

- ABHINANDAN

The recent visit by United States National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan to India and the developments that took place after the visit indicate that the bilateral irritant that may have crept in between the two countries over allegations of the assassination bid on Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is now a thing of the past.

In June last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed an indictment in a New York court, accusing an Indian national, Nikhil Gupta of acting on the plot hatched by an alleged Indian security official to assassinate Pannun, a citizen of the US. Earlier in June this year, Gupta, who was arrested in Prague last year, was extradited to New York to face the charges filed by the DoJ. Later, media reports emerging from Washington had claimed that Delhi had blamed "rogue officer" Vikram Yadav for this entire plot.