| Nikhil Gupta in
Indian Murder for Hire Case
Faces One Week SDNY Trial
Starting Nov 3
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 28 – Back in late
2023 in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York, a
superseding indictment was
unsealed alleging
murder-for-hire charges
against Indian national Nikhil
Gupta, aka Nick, 52, in
connection with his
participation in a foiled plot
to assassinate a U.S. citizen
in NYC - reportedly Sikh
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
Czech authorities
arrested and detained Gupta in
Prague’s Pankrac prison.
On June 17, 2024,
Gupta was presented in the
SDNY Magistrates Court. Inner
City Press thread
On June 28, with
Khalistan protesters out on
Worth Street, Gupta was
produced by US Marshals before
Judge Victor Marrero. Inner
City Press was there - thread
On October 17,
the US unsealed a second
superseding indictment naming
a government official, at
large, as co-defendant: Indian
government employee VIKASH
YADAV, a/k/a “Vikas,” YADAV is
at large."
On October 18,
Inner City Press live tweeted
- and later asked Sikhs
demonstrating on Worth Street
why Modi security official
Ajit Doval did not come to the
US for the UN General
Assembly... Thread
On October
25, Gupta's lawyer wrote in
that he is no longer being
paid and asks to withdraw from
the case. Letter on Patreon here.
On October 31, in
the SDNY Magistrates Court,
the change was effectuated -
and Inner City Press was the
only media there, thread
On February 25,
the US Attorney's Office filed
this: "The Ministry of Justice
of the Czech Republic has
since advised DOJ that no
waiver of the rule of
specialty is necessary.. the
Government intends to proceed
to trial on Count Three."
Filing on Patreon here
On March 21 the
parties wrote to Judge Marrero
proposing the trial "any date
in November 2025"
On March 28,
Judge Marrero picked November
3 and docketed that the trial
should take one week: "Minute
Entry for proceedings held
before Judge Victor Marrero:
Status Conference as to Nikhil
Gupta held on 3/28/2025 as to
Nikhil Gupta. the Court
scheduled the trial in this
matter to begin on November 3,
2025. Based on tentative
representations by the parties
on the number of witnesses to
be called at trial, the Court
estimated that the trial would
span approximately one week
The case is US v.
Gupta, et al., 23-cr-289
(Marrero)
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