While addressing a media briefing on Tuesday (local time), US Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel stated that US understands that Indian inquiry committee will continue its investigation and expects to see further steps based on conversation held between officials of two nations last week.
Pannun has called on gangsters to target CM Mann and Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav on Republic Day.
PM Modi said that a few incidents can't derail India-US bilateral relations.
As per the plea, Nikhil Gupta is currently detained in prison in the Czech Republic while awaiting extradition to the United States in connection with the case there for allegedly being involved in a foiled plot to murder Pannun.
The story reads like the plot of a B-grade Bollywood film. A supposed Indian agent contacts a claimed arms smuggler-cum-criminal for a third party killing abroad, in return for criminal cases against him in India being dropped.
The US has claimed that it thwarted an assassination plot of an American Sikh separatist.
The US has alleged that the charged individual was directed by an Indian government employee.
US has said that it thwarted an alleged plot to killed Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
Pannun said that he was calling for Air India's boycott but India presented a narrative that he wanted to bomb the Indian carrier.
The Indian Envoy also clarified that US inputs were linked to "people in India" and not the "Government of India".
