Nikhil worked on order of Indian govt employee, claims US on Pannun's murder plot

After Nikhil Gupta pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot of Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, FBI official James C Barnacle, Jr claimed that Gupta was working at "the direction and coordination of an Indian government employee". "Gupta thought that from outside this country he could kill someone in it without consequence," the US Attorney's Office said.