Vikash Yadav, accused of plotting to kill a pro-Khalistan separatist, was arrested in an extortion case in December 2023. He was granted bail in March 2024.

US prosecutors charge Indian government employee Vikash Yadav with orchestrating foiled plot to kill pro-Khalistan separatist in US-India relations scandal.

The Delhi Police Special Cell had arrested Vikash Yadav, charged by the US over the Gurpatwant Singh Pannun case, in an extortion case.

Vikash Yaday was reportedly arrested by Delhi Police’s Special Cell in an extortion case in December 2023, less than three weeks after the US Department of Justice identified him as "CC-1", a co-conspirator, last November for allegedly plotting to murder Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

The US justice department has charged 'CC-1' with ‘murder for hire’ and ‘money-laundering’, in connection with the Gurpatwant Singh Pannun assassination

A former Indian government official charged in the United States this week for allegedly directing a foiled murder plot had been arrested in New Delhi in December in an attempted murder case, according to court records and a police officer.

The US Justice Department unsealed the indictment of Vikash Yadav, 39, alleging he led a plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York.