US law enforcement authorities on Wednesday announced the filing of a "murder-for-hire" charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta in what they said was a "foiled plot to assassinate" Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City alleged supervised by an Indian government official. Pannun was not named in the indictment, but more seriously, the chargesheet disclosed that Gupta, 52, was directed by an Indian government official, whom it referred to only as CC-1.