U.S. says alleged murder plotter from India spoke of three ‘jobs’ in Canada

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OTTAWA — A U.S. indictment says a man plotting to assassinate a Sikh activist in New York also discussed the murder of Canadian Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June, and said there were three more "jobs" that needed to be carried out in Canada that month. American prosecutors say Nikhil Gupta, 52, was recruited by an Indian government employee to arrange the U.S. killing, and they arranged to pay an undercover officer they thought was a hit man US$100,000 to kill the activist. The murder-for-hire indictment against Gupta, an Indian national, says he told the undercover officer that...