Sonia, Manmohan Singh had been issued similar summons.
The American Bazaar Staff
NEW YORK: Casting a shadow over his five-day visit to the United States, a US federal court has issued a summons to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 Gujarat riots, The Hindu reports, citing a lawyer from the firm that represents plaintiffs.
Modi is currently on his way to New York to attend the UN General Assembly. He is scheduled to visit Washington, DC, on Monday for meetings with President Obama and other US leaders.
The paper said, quoting lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, that” the summons issued by the Federal Court of Southern District of New York requires Mr. Modi to respond within 21 days after it is served.”
According to the newspaper, the lawsuit, “filed by the American Justice Center (AJC), a non-profit human rights organisation identified among the plaintiffs ‘two survivors of the horrific and organized violence of Gujarat 2002’, and called for a response from Mr. Modi based on the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA).”
Modi is not the first Indian leader to be scrutinized by a US court.
A group called Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) activist group SFJ filed a case against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, alleging that she played a role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and attempted to serve her with a subpoena when she was in New York City last September.
That case was also filed in Federal Court of Southern District of New York.
SFJ filed similar cases against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at a US federal court in Washington, DC.
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Modi must be treated as other criminals. We want justice for 2002 genocide. We have lot of expectations from you, Mr President!
He will never get punished for his deeds in India. We have high hope of humanity from your justice. Finally, people like me did not vote in the elections & we have made a genocider as our PM. Shameful…
Must be crazy to Summons Modi. America already damaged India-US relation ship. Why do they make worst? Court in India did not find anything against Modi.
What about statue of limitation.
Must be crazy to Summons Modi. America already damaged India-US relation ship. Why do they make worst? Court in India did not find anything against Modi.
What about statue of limitation.
And what happened to the case against Sonia Gandhi? Are these guys having brains up their wazoos?