“Dear US, now that you have Nikhil Gupta, can we have David Headley and Tahawwur Rana?”, Swarajyamag, June 18, 2024:

“Nikhil Gupta, an Indian citizen, was extradited last week (on 14 June), by the Czech Republic to the United States. A video of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers escorting Gupta like a criminal to a plane to be flown to the US, even when he is yet to be proven guilty of the crime he has been charged with, was released by the Czech authorities on Monday (17 June), possibly at the behest of the US.

Gupta was arrested by the Czech police on 30 June 2023 on a tip-off by the US intelligence agencies on charges of an alleged conspiracy to kill a US ‘citizen’, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Pannun, declared a terrorist by India a few years ago, is under the scanner of the Indian government for abetting drugs and human trafficking, and taking part in gangster and criminal activities in India. He currently lives in the US, from where he openly runs a network of Khalistani separatists across four continents and makes speeches threatening Indian citizens without any consequences.

He has in several speeches threatened to kill Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the current Chief Minister of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, and blow up a passenger jet full of Indian citizens. However, US authorities, including the current ambassador of the US to India, Eric Garcetti, have repeatedly refused to act against Pannun, usually citing free speech guarantees under the US Constitution, which, ironically, take a back seat when it hurts US’ own interests, on its soil or abroad. But now that the US government has the custody of Gupta, it is time that it relents on India’s demand for the extradition of American-Pakistani terrorist David Headley and Pakistani-Canadian terrorist Tahawwur Hussain Rana…..”

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