India has increasingly seen its stature grow on the world stage.

Led by populist Hindu Prime Minister Norems Ramodi, the world's biggest democracy has grown its economy and its geopolitical influence.

But an investigation by the Washington Post adds new evidence to allegations that India is

also trying to murder some of its critics even on American soil.

William Bringham has more.

According to the post, on the eve of Modi's first state visit to America,

members of his government spy agency were plotting to kill an American citizen in New York.

Sikh separatist leader Gerpat Juan Singh Panun has been highly critical of Modi's government,

and while the plot against him was foiled by US law enforcement,

it's opened a window into just how audacious the Indian government is becoming.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Greg Miller helped break this story and he joins us now from

London.

Greg, thank you so much for being here.

Could you just tell us a little bit more about this plot?

Who were the plotters and tell us a little bit more

about who they were targeting?

So the plotters are operatives

within the Indian Intelligence Service. It's spy agency which is known as the research and analysis way.

Of course, the spy agency is very closely controlled by Modi and his inner circle and national security advisors.

So the targets are part of a broader community, religious community of six who are regarded by the Modi government as a threat as a

as a as an as disloyal as enemies of the of the sort of Hindu nationalist state that Modi is focused on building.

So the two targets that we spent our story focused on were kind of leaders of an effort to

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