'Accosted by US agents, interrogated for 3 hours, forced to eat beef', says Nikhil Gupta, man accused by US of plotting to kill Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

NEW DELHI: Nikhil Gupta, the Indian national accused by the US of being party to a plot to kill Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has given extraordinary details about how he was accosted by American agents at Prague airport and illegally interrogated for over 3 hours inside a moving black van before finally being handed over to the Czech authorities.

Gupta is currently lodged in a Czech prison in solitary confinement and awaiting to be extradited to the US on murder-for-hire charges.
Approach Czech court: SC
The shocking details came out in a plea moved in the Supreme Court by Nikhil Gupta's family member, identified only as Mr X.

The plea -- invoking Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- claimed that Nikhil Gupta's fundamental rights were violated multiple times, including threats to himself and his family, and requested the Indian government to intervene in his extradition to the US.
While the SC acknowledged the "extremely sensitive matter", it asked the petitioner to approach the Czech justice system as the Indian top court has no jurisdiction over arrests in another country. "The person detained (Nikhil Gupta) has not given an affidavit. If there is violation of any law ... you have to go to court over there," Justice Sanjiv Khanna, before relenting and scheduling a hearing for next month

Illegal detention and interrogation
In the petition, Mr X claimed that Nikhil Gupta was illegally detained and interrogated by US agents and that "no formal arrest warrant was presented ... and his phone was also taken away".
The petition pointed out that the "arrest" was made not at the immigration counter in the airport, as would have been the norm, but after Nikhil Gupta cleared entry formalities, "When (he) had, in fact, exited Vaclav Havel Airport ... meaning this round of questioning in the back of an SUV for three hours was absolutely illegal and against the principles of both international and municipal law".

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The "American agents" also threatened the petitioner before handing him over to local authorities, the petition claimed.