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New Delhi: A federal judge in New York has denied Indian national Nikhil Gupta’s bid to throw out evidence and dismiss a charge in the case accusing him of conspiring to assassinate proscribed Sikh for Justice counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

In an order issued on Friday (October 3), Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York dismissed Gupta’s motion “in its entirety”, ruling that there had been no violation of his rights during his arrest in Prague and that prosecutors could proceed on all three counts, including conspiracy to launder money.

The judge concluded in the 51-page order that “there was no joint venture between authorities of the Czech Republic and the United States” when Gupta was detained at Prague’s Vaclav Havel airport in June 2023.

He found that Gupta’s statements to Czech police were “made voluntarily” and that he “waived his rights knowingly and voluntarily during his interrogation with United States law enforcement officers”.

The ruling also noted that Gupta “does not have standing to challenge Count Three under the rule of specialty”, which had been added after his........

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