{"id":33032,"date":"2014-04-25T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33032"},"modified":"2014-04-25T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:07:48","slug":"us-court-asks-sikh-group-summon-manmohan-singh-june-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/us-court-asks-sikh-group-summon-manmohan-singh-june-18","title":{"rendered":"US court asks Sikh group to summon Manmohan Singh by June 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/us-court-permits-sikh-group-summon-manmohan-singh\/manmohan-singh-14\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32372\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/us-court-permits-sikh-group-summon-manmohan-singh\/manmohan-singh-14\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/manmohan-singh.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"manmohan singh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/manmohan-singh.jpg?fit=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/manmohan-singh.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32372 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manmohan-singh.jpg?resize=203%2C135&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"manmohan singh\" width=\"203\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/manmohan-singh.jpg?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/manmohan-singh.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>A US court has asked a Sikh group to serve summons on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by June 18 or face dismissal of a case of alleged violation of human rights during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plaintiffs shall file proof of service on or before June 18, 2014,&#8221; US District Judge James E Boasberg said in its April 18 order.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington federal court had issued summons against Manmohan Singh during his September 2013 visit to Washington on a plea by Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) accusing him of &#8220;funding crimes against humanity perpetrated upon the Sikh community in India&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The SFJ has also accused the Indian Prime Minister of &#8220;funding several counter insurgency operations in the state of Punjab during the 1990s resulting in more than hundred thousand Sikhs being tortured and extra judicially killed by the security forces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To comply with the US Court orders, the rights group will now employ &#8220;alternate means&#8221; to accomplish the service of outstanding US Court summons on Manmohan Singh, SFJ said.<\/p>\n<p>These include but not limited to &#8220;service by publication&#8221;, &#8220;email&#8221; or &#8220;social media&#8221; as provided under Washington DC Rules of Service&#8221;, legal advisor to SFJ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun stated.<\/p>\n<p>The rules provide that service of summons may be accomplished &#8220;by other means not prohibited by international agreement as may be directed by the Court,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The case against Manmohan Singh was filed by SFJ under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA).<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US court has asked a Sikh group to serve summons on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by June 18 or face dismissal of a case of alleged violation of human rights during his tenure. &#8220;Plaintiffs shall file proof of service on or before June 18, 2014,&#8221; US District Judge James E Boasberg said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[26128,28313,47765,26124,47774,47775,23371,26130,28314],"class_list":["post-33032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-alien-tort-claims-act","tag-indian-prime-minister-manmohan-singh","tag-news","tag-sikhs-for-justice","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news","tag-torture-victim-protection-act","tag-us-district-judge-james-e-boasberg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US court asks Sikh group to summon Manmohan Singh by June 18<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"US court asks Sikh group to summon Manmohan Singh by June 18\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/us-court-asks-sikh-group-summon-manmohan-singh-june-18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US court asks Sikh group to summon Manmohan Singh by June 18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US court asks Sikh group to summon Manmohan Singh by June 18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/us-court-asks-sikh-group-summon-manmohan-singh-june-18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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