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The United States State Department served summonses to the Indian government in Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s civil lawsuit alleging an assassination plot against him. Pannun’s plea named National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and former Research and Analysis Wing chief Samant Goel among the defendants.
The Ministry of External Affairs rejected the lawsuit as “frivolous” and described the allegations against Indian officials as “fabricated and malicious”.
Pannun, an American and Canadian citizen, is an advocate for Khalistan. He has sought damages over an alleged attempt on his life and has accused Doval of orchestrating the plot to assassinate him involving India’s intelligence agency. Read on.
The United States Embassy in Australia on Tuesday posted a map on X showing India as being “partly free”. The map was based on the annual report of Freedom House, a US-based non-profit organisation funded by the American government.
The organisation had classified India as a “partly free” country for the sixth consecutive year in its annual Freedom...