The former Indian government employee, Vikash Yadav, orchestrated a plot to kill an advocate of the Khalistan separatist movement last year, prosecutors said.

The US Justice department has charged Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence officer, in the alleged plot.

An Indian government employee is accused of plotting the murder-for-hire of a Sikh separatist leader in New York City, the Justice Department said.

An Indian government employee has been indicted for his role in a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader in the United States, the Justice Department said Thursday.

As India doubles down on rejecting the claim it is behind widespread crimes in Canada, its foreign ministry is accusing Ottawa of trying to smear New Delhi.