'India requests FBI to share intel on Sikh separatists'

The government has requested the United States to share intelligence on Sikh separatists living there amid investigations into an accusation that an Indian official was linked to a plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, an Indian official said on Tuesday.

The request was made by the National Investigations Agency (NIA), India's anti-terrorism agency, in meetings with visiting FBI director Christopher Wray, said the official, who works at NIA and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The issue of what the Indian government says are Sikh separatists operating against India from US soil was discussed in "greater detail by a team of internal security officials from both countries", the official said.