New Delhi: A US court will begin hearing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against the Congress on Tuesday.
A Sikh rights group had sought a default judgment against the party for its failure to defend charges of conspiracy and organising the riots.
The Congress party had opposed the charges. Lawyers from international law firm 'Jones Day', which is representing the Congress in a court in New York, opposed the entry of default judgement against the political party arguing the 1984 riots case "involves significant issues of public international law that should not be decided by a default judgement".
Judge Robert Sweet of US federal court in Manhattan is presiding over the anti-Sikh riots case filed against the Congress and some of its leaders including Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath.
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