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By Rupam Jain
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has requested the USA to share intelligence on Sikh separatists residing there amid investigations into an accusation that an Indian official was linked to a plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, an Indian official mentioned on Tuesday.
The request was made by the Nationwide Investigations Company (NIA), India’s federal anti-terrorism company, in conferences with visiting FBI Director Christopher Wray, mentioned the official, who works at NIA and spoke on situation of anonymity.
The problem of what New Delhi says are Sikh separatists working in opposition to India from U.S. soil was mentioned in “greater detail by a team of internal security officials from both countries”, the official mentioned.
“India has requested the U.S. officials to share inputs on suspected individuals who have in recent years been recruited and embedded in the separatist movement,” the official mentioned.
An NIA spokesperson mentioned the company didn’t have a remark when reached by Reuters.
The U.S. embassy’s spokesperson mentioned conferences between Wray and Indian officers had been underway and he couldn’t share particulars as but.
The motion for a Sikh homeland in northern India, crushed many years in the past, has burst onto the worldwide stage in current months as the USA and Canada accused Indian officers of involvement in assassination plots in opposition to Sikh separatist leaders in North America.
New Delhi denies any connection to a June homicide in a Vancouver suburb however has introduced an investigation into U.S. considerations about an alleged plot in New York.
It says such plots weren’t authorities coverage and it isn’t looking down Sikh separatists overseas. On the similar time, Indian safety and international ministry officers say Sikh separatists in North America and Europe elevating cash, coaching folks and campaigning for India’s division, is a priority for New Delhi.
India has additionally sought to distance the FBI chief’s go to – the primary in years – from the New York case, saying Wray’s journey had been deliberate for a while.
