Rahul Gandhi addresses India Inc. at FICCI (December 21)
A Sikh rights group, that has filed cases on human rights violations in 1984 riots against the Congress party and its leader Sonia Gandhi, said it will subpoena the party's vice president Rahul Gandhi before a US court.
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) said it decided to subpoena Mr Gandhi after he said in a televised interview that "some Congress men were probably involved in 1984 anti-Sikh riots and they have been punished for it." The group said it will subpoena the 43-year-old Congress "as a witness before New York federal court in the pending 1984 Sikh rights violation lawsuit."
Reacting to SFJ's demand, eminent Indian-American lawyer Ravi Batra told PTI that any requests for subpoena issued on Mr Gandhi will be responded to with a motion to dismiss. Mr Batra, who represents the Congress party in US courts, also strongly objected to SFJ's demand saying the group should not build "visitor-suites in their sand castles.
"Staying out of the internal politics of India, but dealing only with the legal issues raised by SFJ's perpetual desire to raise false public expectations - any subpoena issued by SFJ on Rahul Gandhi will be met with a motion to quash," Mr Batra said.