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New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued a non-bailable warrant against former RAW officer Vikash Yadav, who was named by the US in a \u201cmurder-for-hire\u201d plot and money laundering targeting New York-based Sikh Khalistani leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, after he failed to appear in a case of alleged kidnapping and extortion.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, the order passed by additional sessions judge Saurabh Partap Singh Laler of Patiala House Courts noted that Yadav was absent \u201cdespite repeated calls\u201d. The court directed, \u201cIssue NBWs [non-bailable warrants] against accused Vikas Yadav and notice to his surety for October 17\u201d.<\/p>\n
Court records show that a member of Yadav\u2019s family had stood surety in the case, The Indian Express reported. Yadav had been granted exemption from appearance in previous hearings after his lawyer moved an application.<\/p>\n
In November 2023, US prosecutors charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta with attempting to murder Pannun, saying he was acting under the direction of an Indian government official identified at the time only as \u201cCC-1.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three weeks later, on December 18, 2023, Delhi Police\u2019s Special Cell arrested Yadav in a separate case of kidnapping and extortion, based on a complaint by a resident of Rohini, Delhi. He was granted bail in April 2024 after spending four months in Tihar Jail. His whereabouts since his release are not known.<\/p>\n
In October 2024, US authorities unsealed a second superseding indictment naming \u201cCC-1\u201d as Vikash Yadav, describing him as an official with the Cabinet Secretariat under the Indian Prime Minister\u2019s Office. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs later said he was \u201cno longer an employee of the government of India.\u201d<\/p>\n
Five days before Donald Trump\u2019s second presidential inauguration this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a statement that a high-powered government committee has recommended \u201clegal action\u201d against \u201can individual\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued a non-bailable warrant against former RAW officer Vikash Yadav, who was named by the US in a \u201cmurder-for-hire\u201d plot and money laundering targeting New York-based Sikh Khalistani leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, after he failed to appear in a case of alleged kidnapping and extortion. According to Kashmir Media …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}