This is the story of how two alleged murder plots involving Sikh activists brought India, the US and Canada to a diplomatic crisis. 0:00 Mysterious deaths 2:35 Assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar 4:08 Sikhs accuse India 5:24 How did we get here? 9:15 A new phase 10:45 The Pannun plot 13:28 Political fallout 14:00 Pannun plot foiled 17:53 The accused The lawyer was being watched. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s schedule was predictable: a regular commute in Queens between his law office and his home, along with visits to a gym and a cafe. For the men who began tailing him in the spring of 2023, getting a sense of his routine was easy. It helped, too, that Pannun was easy to spot, in his mid-50s, with a thick gray beard and an ink-black turban, marks of his Sikh faith. From a short distance away, the surveillance team took photos of him walking out of his house, entering his car, cooling down after a workout. Half a world away from New York, Nikhil Gupta was waiting eagerly. Gupta was a m...