A 42-year-old Perth man has been charged with attempting to murder his father-in-law in a transnational plot that allegedly involved an attack in India. Western Australia police say the man orchestrated a plan in which three men attacked the 65-year-old victim with a machete and shot him in the head in a village in Punjab in February 2023. The gun misfired, leaving the older man with a serious brain injury.
The victim moved to Western Australia less than two weeks after the attack, where police and a family violence team began working with relatives. The accused was arrested in June for breaching a family violence restraining order taken out by his ex-wife, police allege, and his father-in-law then started receiving further death threats.
Police will allege the man was actively seeking people to murder his father-in-law in what they describe as a transnational conspiracy. The man was charged this week and is due to appear in Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Punjabi police have arrested and charged three men with offences relating to the attack. They have advised authorities they will not seek extradition of the Perth man from Australia.
