Indicted by US Justice Department: No records of Nikhil Gupta in narco registry

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Nikhil Gupta, who was named by the United States in an indictment before a US court, alleging a plot to assassinate a US citizen involving Indian officials.
The registry, however, threw up five other persons with the same name who are under trial in different states, but not in Gujarat, said officials.

The national database on arrested narcotics offenders was launched in 2022 and contains names of those arrested by police across states in the country and by central agencies,
Earlier, the National Crime Records Bureau recorded the cases registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act but information about individuals stayed with the state police.

Gujarat's director general of police Vikas Sahay told ET last week that the state police did not find any records on Gupta. «We have inquired about the person named Nikhil Gupta and the prima facie inquiry did not find any case against him after I confirmed with all the four commissionerates in Gujarat.

All the DCPs (district commissioners of police) from the city confirmed that they did not know who Gupta was,» he said.

After the indictment by the US Department of Justice, India's external affairs ministry set up a committee to probe the allegations. In the indictment, the US Justice Department alleged that an Indian national, who was in touch with government officials, tried to orchestrate the murder of Sikh activist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York recently.

The indictment also linked the Pannun plot to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver. As per the charges, an Indian government employee shared visual evidence of Nijjar's murder, later in Surrey, before giving the go-ahead for a strike.