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Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the Khalistani separatist and Indian-origin citizen of the US and Canada, is in the spotlight after the US law enforcement authorities on Wednesday announced the filing of a «murder-for-hire» charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta in what they said was a «foiled plot to assassinate» Pannun in New York City allegedly supervised by an Indian government official. Pannun has been the most vocal proponent of Khalistan in recent years, holding Khalistani referendums in Western countries and announcing rewards to Indian SIkhs for writing Khalistani graffiti and hoisting Khalistani flags. A designated terrorist wanted in India in nearly two dozen cases related to terror and sedition, Pannun has emerged as the biggest figurehead of the Khalistani movement, threatening India and Hindus with impunity, even threatening obliquely to blow up Air India flights recently. Read More:'Matter of concern,' New Delhi says as US indictment names Indian on Khalistani Pannun's murder plot charges Pannun started out as an eccentric activist, who would file cases in American courts against visiting Indian politicians for their alleged role in the 1984 Sikh riots, and has now become the most reocgnised face of the global Khalistani movement. The beginning of Pannun “Children often bring pride to their village or towns, but Gurpatwant has besmirched its reputation with a tag of a terrorist's village and brought us shame,” Sarjan Singh, a resident of Pannun's ancestral village Khankot, on the outskirts of Amritsar in Punjab, had told TOI three years ago.

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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Nikhil Gupta, 52, worked with the Indian government employee, whose responsibilities included security and intelligence, on the plot to assassinate the New York City resident who advocated for a Sikh sovereign state in northern India. Prosecutors did not name the Indian official or the target, although they did describe the latter as a U.S.

Jonathan Majors appeared in court in New York on Wednesday for the start of jury selection in a trial in which he is accused of injuring his then-girlfriend during an argument last spring. The trial could wind up playing a big role in what happens next with Majors, who had emerged as a breakout star with major roles in films including 'Creed III' and who was being set up as the next great supervillain in the Marvel multiverse. The 34-year-old actor entered a Manhattan courtroom alongside his current girlfriend, the actress Meagan Good, carrying a Bible and one of his signature coffee cups. He did not speak during the start of the proceeding. Majors was arrested in March over a confrontation between the actor and Grace Jabbari, his girlfriend at the time, during a car ride in Manhattan. Prosecutors said Jabbari had grabbed a phone out of the actor's hand after seeing a text, presumably from another woman, saying «Wish I was kissing you right now.» Majors tried to snatch the phone back. Jabbari said the actor pulled her finger, twisted her arm behind her back and hit her face.

Canada on Wednesday pressed India to cooperate in an investigation of the murder of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia after the U.S. revealed it had foiled an assassination attempt against a Sikh separatist on its soil.

(This story originally appeared in on Nov 29, 2023)

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Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York recently. The indictment also linked the Pannun plot to the murder of Hardeep Nijjar in Vancouver.