Sonia say no to US for providing passport copy
New York: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has declined to provide a copy of her passport to a US court here as documentary evidence in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The court’s order had come on a lawsuit filed by the rights groups Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) which claimed it had served summons on Gandhi when she had allegedly visited Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in the city for a medical check-up in September last year.
Gandhi’s attorney Ravi Batra on Monday submitted before the court that his client has ‘nothing to hide’.
Batra handed over to the court as exhibit a letter dated April 5 signed by Gandhi to him in which she states that ‘in matters of disclosure of my travels, which are contained in the passport document, the Government of India has informed me that they would not permit such a disclosure’.
“However, as I have nothing to hide, I voluntarily relinquish the plea of lack of personal jurisdiction. I may add that the present submission is without prejudice to the plea of want of jurisdiction in relation to the subject matter,” she says.
