New Delhi: Indian Nikhil Gupta, inspired by American officials to plot to kill Sikh separatist Gurpant Singh PanunWill go on a test on 3 November and not in June or July as proposed earlier.
An American District Judge in the southern district of New York finalized the date of the trial, which would run only for a week after both prosecution and defense, as demanding them to postpone the test to allow them to show off to resolve legal issues, which could affect the test.
American court Perves just one week to wrapping Nikhil Gupta Trial
In the order of 28 February, the court asked both sides to suggest the date of testing in June or July. While the parties also said in their latest submission that they had estimated the test for about two weeks, the court allowed only one week to wrap. Nikhil Gupta, who has not convicted the allegations against him, has been held at a detention center since the Czech Republic, where he was first detained, extradited to the US on 14 June last year.
Gupta has accused a hitman for $ 100,000 to eliminate the US-Canadian citizen, Paan, at the behest of an Indian government official known as Vikash Yadav. The murder conspiracy as a hitman came out as a federal undercover agent. Yadav had allegedly hired Gupta to orkstrate the murder of Panun in May 2023.
The Indian government formed a high-level committee in November 2023 to investigate American findings. In January, before Donald Trump assumed the office, the committee submitted a report, recommending legal action against Yadav (without name) said that his earlier criminal links and anticadents also came to notice during the investigation “.
