A habeas corpus petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of Indian national Nikhil Gupta, an accused of allegedly plotting the assassination of Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, seeking the intervention of the government of India to release him from prison in the Czech Republic, reported Live Law.
US federal prosecutors last month charged Nikhil Gupta with working with an Indian government employee in the foiled plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh extremist who is an American and Canadian citizen. An unnamed Indian official also appeared in an indictment along with the Indian national, who the department of justice alleges hired someone in the US to assassinate Pannun.
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