"Won't speak until allegations are proved before a jury": US on investigation into alleged attempt to kill Pannun
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is an ongoing legal matter, the US State Department said it «won't speak» until «allegations are proved» before a jury.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is an India-designated terrorist who holds American and Canadian citizenship.
«There's a publicly returned indictment that contains alleged facts or allegations. Until they're proven before a jury that anyone can go and read, I won't speak to them here because, of course, it's an ongoing legal matter, and I'll leave it at that,» spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a State Department briefing on Thursday (local time).
Miller's remarks came in response to a media query on Pannun's case investigation.
Notably, a Czech court has ruled that Prague can extradite to the United States the 52-year-old Indian, Nikhil Gupta, who is accused by the United States of involvement in the alleged attempt to kill Sikh separatist leader Pannun, a Czech-based media outlet Seznam Zpravy reported, citing judicial database Infosoud.
As per the US Justice Department indictment, Indian national Nikhil Gupta is currently in custody and has been charged with murder-for-hire, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Czech authorities arrested and detained Gupta on June 30, 2023, under the bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and the Czech Republic.
The US Justice Department had claimed that an Indian government employee, who was not identified in the indictment filed in a federal
