New York: A US court has reserved its ruling on the Congress party’s plea for dismissal of a human rights violation case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh violence filed by a US-based Sikh rights group.
Manhattan’s US Federal Judge Robert W Sweet on Wednesday reserved his ruling after the Congress party, challenging the “extraterritorial jurisdiction” of US courts, asked it to respect India’s sovereignty.
The Congress party argued that the US court should decline to hear the case as the party could not be held liable in a US court for “acts occurring in India nearly three decades ago, involving only residents of India, with no plausible nexus to the United States”.
Urging Sweet to continue with the 1984 case, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) attorney Michael Fitzgerald said the 1984 violence was not an accident or coincidence but a plan to eliminate the Sikhs.
IANS
