Nikhil Gupta, who has been accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill Khalistani leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has reiterated his innocence and asked a federal judge for a Hindi-speaking lawyer saying that he was not fluent in English.
Appearing in a federal court in New York on Friday, October 18, he asked the court through his lawyer for the return of a prayer book that had been confiscated from him after his arrest in the Czech Republic.