Former RAW agent Vikas Yadav was arrested by Delhi Police in December final 12 months for an unrelated extortion and kidnapping case, weeks after the US authorities named him a key conspirator within the foiled bid to assassinate Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, in response to police sources, as reported by PTI.
The 39-year-old was arrested by the particular cell of Delhi Police on December 18, 2023, for allegedly kidnapping a businessman in Rohini and extorting cash on behalf of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
He was granted common bail in April this 12 months, solely a month after he had been interim bail for medical causes relating to his daughter. The bail order referred Yadav as “an ex-government worker having clear antecedents.”
The US on Thursday charged Yadav in an alleged plot to assassinate Pannun on American soil. The US Justice Division revealed that he was not in custody however confronted expenses of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and cash laundering. He had been recognized as “CC-1” (co-conspirator) in first indictment.
The MEA responded to this saying that Yadav was “now not an worker of the Authorities of India.”
The assassination try on Pannun was thwarted in June of final 12 months after the arrest of one other co-conspirator, Nikhil Gupta. Gupta is at the moment incarcerated in a US jail following his extradition from the Czech Republic.
