(Reuters) – A city council member from a Chicago suburb of 25,000 people is making for an unlikely antagonist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Joseph Whittington of Harvey, Illinois, worked with a group of New York lawyers to found a nonprofit and file a civil lawsuit that said Modi failed to stop anti-Muslim rioting in 2002. The suit was filed
Read moreLawsuit makes for awkward start to Modi’s big U.S. visit BY DAVID INGRAM AND ANDREW MACASKILL NEW YORK/NEW DELHI Sat Sep 27, 2014 Read More…
Read moreNEW YORK — A U.S. human rights group on Friday offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who can serve on India’s prime minister a summons issued by a federal court in New York to respond to a lawsuit accusing him of serious abuses more than a decade ago. Immunity rules for visiting foreign leaders mean Narendra Modi can’t be served
Read moreThe court summons relates to Modi’s alleged complicity in enabling the deadly 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat. Some 24 hours before he arrives in the United States on his first visit to the country as prime minster, the U.S. Federal Court of the Southern District of New York issued a summons against Narendra Modi regarding his alleged involvement in the
Read moreNEW DELHI — A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to arrive for a much-touted five-day visit to the United States, a federal court in New York issued a summons for Mr. Modi to respond to a lawsuit that accuses him of human rights abuses in connection with religious riots in 2002 that tore through Gujarat, the state he
Read more‘Summons could simply be served by ascertaining the presence of Mr. Modi in relatively close proximity, for example depositing the summons at his feet‘ The organisation behind a lawsuit filed against Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered a bounty of $10,000 to anyone who could serve him with the summons issued by a federal district court and capture the service
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