An Indian RAW official was involved in a plot to assassinate Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil around the state visit of PM Narendra Modi, federal prosecutors alleged on Thursday in an indictment filed in a US court in New York.

The official identified as Vikas Yadav, 39, was employed by the Cabinet Secretariat, which houses India’s foreign intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the federal prosecutors claimed.