New York: India's ruling Congress party will move a federal court seeking dismissal of a human rights violation lawsuit against it by a Sikh rights group in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The Congress party, through its attorney in the US, Ravi Batra will seek an order in March 2014 before District Judge Robert Sweet at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss the lawsuit.
In a notice of motion to reject the complaint filed by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), Batra said the lawsuit should be dismissed since there is lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
Any opposition to the motion by the Congress party should be filed by plaintiffs SFJ on or before February 17. SFJ's lawsuit alleges that the Congress party protected and shielded perpetrators of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The organisation's legal advisor Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has said that victims of the riots filed the human rights violation complaint invoking the US Federal court jurisdiction over the case based on Alien Tort Statute, the Torture Victim
Protection Act and Federal Common Law.
SFJ is demanding a jury trial and seeking compensatory and punitive damages.
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