by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 26 – For a plot to murder Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Indian national Nikhil Gupta is in the MDC Brooklyn jail; Inner City Press is covering his criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Now a civil case filed by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, against the Indian government for assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, is also in SDNY. On February 26 Pannum's lawyers filed their affidavit of service on defendant Ajit Doval. Here is the story it tells.
Ajit Doval was staying at Blair House in DC on February 12 and 13 during the state visit. But, according to the filing, the Secret Service refused to accept service of legal papers on Doval, and threatened to arrest the process service, who left the papers in a Starbucks 100 feet away.
The case is Pannun v. The Government of India, et al., 1:24-cv-7021 (Failla)
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