Vikash Yadav, wanted by the FBI for allegedly plotting the murder of Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, was arrested 10 months ago by the Delhi Police Special Cell in connection with a kidnapping and attempted murder case.

The counsel of former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer Vikash Yadav on Saturday termed the charges brought against his client by the US law enforcement agencies as bogus and part of an international ploy to defame India.

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.

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

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.

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

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.