Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
Given the ties between India and Russia (go right back to India's ties with the Soviet Union) then India will be under pressure from Russia not to expose these as state sponsored assassinations.
Putin has strong form for assassinating people whenever and wherever he chooses. He started doing this a long time ago, when he first came into power, and has been using it to threaten others he fears might try and oppose him for years. We can't criticise India, the UK didn't exactly bend over backwards to blame Russia for assassinations here. Even after Litvinenko's death in 2006 the UK government was reluctant to properly investigate (or at least make public) the true cause of death of several other Russians here, right up until the Salisbury chemical weapons attack, which was so gross, and so bodged, that our government had no choice, and had to publicly admit that Russia was involved in state sponsored assassination.