Rights group to serve US court summons to Badal
Tuesday, 16/07/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130717/punjab.htm#14
Washington : A Sikh rights body in the US has said it would use provisions of the Hague Service Treaty to serve the summons of a US court to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in a case accusing him of human rights violation.
The Hague Service Treaty, of which India is a signatory, allows service of judicial papers between the signatory countries without diplomatic involvement.
The Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), which earlier filed a human rights violation case against Badal along with the Akali Dal (Mann), took the decision after it failed to serve summons on Badal recently.
“We will use the Hague Service Convention to serve outstanding Federal summons on Badal in India to make him accountable before Wisconsin Federal court for protecting and commanding a police force responsible for torture and extra judicial killings of Sikhs in the state of Punjab,” said Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor to SFJ.
The Eastern District of Wisconsin has given SFJ until October 24 to serve the summons on Badal in human rights violation lawsuit.
