The American administration led by President Joe Biden warned India over an alleged plot to eliminate a Sikh terrorist wanted for various crimes in the South Asian country, a Western publication said on Wednesday.
According to the report published in the Financial Times (FT), the plotters were planning to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the chief of the radical Khalistan organization, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), banned in India.
Of late, Pannun has grabbed headlines all over the world for threatening to bomb Air India planes and kill Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The media outlet further claimed that some of the US allies, including Canada were informed about India's alleged bid to murder Pannun.
Interestingly, Pannun is a dual US and Canadian citizen.
The development comes only months after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upset New Delhi with his bombshell September accusations, alleging that "agents of the Indian government" were behind the killing of another Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar, wanted in several cases in India, including hate crimes, was killed in the Canadian province of British Columbia in June.
The newspaper also mentioned that the US lodged an official protest over the matter during Modi's state visit to Washington the same month Nijjar was killed in Canada.
Furthermore, the report revealed that American law-enforcement agencies filed a case against one of the plotters in the district court in New York.