Will US-Indian relations be hurt by India’s assassination scheme?
American prosecutors have published devastating allegations about India’s attempted hit jobs
IT IS A plot worthy of John le Carré. A shadowy figure in India recruits an international arms-and-drugs smuggler to organise a hit-job in New York. The smuggler recruits an assassin. The assassin turns out to work for America’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The man behind the foiled plot? An Indian government official.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A damning indictment”
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