New York: A court of United States had dismissed a lawsuit which accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 2002 Gujarat riots.
US District Judge Analisa Torres while dismissing the case filed by human rights group American Justice Centre (AJC) in New York on Wednesday said upheld the US Department of State’s determination regarding immunity for the PM.
A lawsuit had been filed by AJC against Modi on the eve of his visit to the US last year.
The complaint alleged that PM Modi did not do enough to control riots in his home state of Gujarat in 2002 where over 1,000 people were killed, most of them Muslims.
Notify that Supreme Court of India had already given clean chit to Modi of allegations of complicity in the violence.
The US had revoked his visa in 2005, but after Modi was elected in May last year, he was invited to the White House by President Obama.
She ruled, “A sitting head of state’s immunity from jurisdiction is based on the Executive Branch’s determination of official immunity without regard to the specific conduct alleged.”
The plaintiffs’ argument had been dismissed by judge that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provided immunity only to foreign states and not to individual government officials and Modi was not entitled to common law immunity as the alleged acts took place before he became Prime Minister.
Bureau Report
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