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 FBI has issued a wanted poster for Vikash Yadav, a former Indian government employee, linked to a foiled assassination plot against US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

The indictment was unsealed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The US Department of Justice alleged that Yadav was a co-conspirator of 53-year-old Nikhil Gupta, who was previously charged.

Vikash Yadav: For the first time since the US accused an unnamed Indian official, referred to as CC-1, of allegedly attempting to assassinate pro-Khalistan separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, US federal prosecutors have identified Vikash Yadav as the intelligence official and charged him with murder-for-hire and money laundering.

Today’s charges demonstrate that the Justice Department will not tolerate attempts to target and endanger Americans and to undermine the rights to which every US citizen is entitled," said US Attorney General Merrick B.

The US has accused a former Senior Field Officer of RAW, Vikash Yadav, in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Vikash Yadav has been accused of recruiting an Indian national,

The FBI has issued a wanted poster for Vikash Yadav, accused of plotting to assassinate US citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Yadav allegedly conspired with another Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, utilizing Yadav's position in India's government.

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