Sabyasachi Roy was the Director of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) foreign intelligence agency of India during the 2010s. In 2015, after taking counsel from his subordinate Samit Mishra, Roy reluctantly approved the highly-secretive Operation Phantom to eliminate the leadership of Lashkar-e-Taiba after discovering that the LeT was plotting a major terrorist attack in India. Roy was forced to keep the operation secret and limited to a small group of operatives after he failed to obtain permission from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the operation, and he directed the assassin Daniyal Khan via cell phone. He came under increasing scrutiny from the government as more LeT leaders were mysteriously killed, and, after the dual assassinations of Haaris Saeed and Sahabuddin Umavi in Lahore, he confessed RAW's responsibility in the murders to Modi and convinced him to approve an Indian Navy rescue mission to extract Khan and his accomplice Nawaz Mistry from international waters after bluffing that Khan had threatened to reveal India's involvement in the murders unless he was rescued. The operation succeeded in rescuing Mistry, but Khan had already been killed by the Pakistan Navy; Khan's tragic death, was, however, instrumental in ensuring that the operation remained highly classified.