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Rahul Gandhi to take over as Congress president before Gujarat Elections

As per media reports Rahul Gandhi is set to be elevated as Congress president within the next couple of weeks.

Congress To Field Sunil Jakhar For Gurdaspur Lok Sabha By-Election

As per the media reports the Punjab Congress unit after consultation with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi here on Wednesday decided to field its Punjab unit chief

US court rejects Sikhs For Justice’s appeal in case against Sonia Gandhi

A United States court of appeals has rejected the appeal filed by Sikhs For Justice in case against Sonia Gandhi. The court of appeals for the second circuit in New York upheld the order of the district courts dismissing human rights violation lawsuit against Indian politician and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. It may be recalled here that the district court had dismissed the case in June last year.

Sikh Genocide 1984: US court reserves decision in case against Sonia Gandhi

A Federal Appeals Court in Manhattan has reserved the decision in the rights violation case filed against Congress president Sonia Gandhi for allegedly shielding and protecting Congress party leaders who lead death squads after the assassination of PM Indira Gandhi.

Sikh Genocide 1984: US court to hear arguments against Sonia Gandhi on Aug. 18

A US Federal Court of Appeals has calendared oral arguments in rights violation case filed against Sonia Gandhi for August 18. The lawsuit had alleged that Congress President was shielding, protecting and rewarding the perpetrators massacre of November 1984 when thousands of innocents Sikhs were killed in the aftermath of assassination of Indira Gandhi.

Sonia-Rahul should take 2 years break: Jagmit Brar; Punjab congress chief fire show-cause

Chandigarh (August 3, 2014): Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa issued a show-cause notice to senior party leader Jagmeet Brar on Saturday (August 02) after his statement that party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice-chief Rahul Gandhi should take a two-year break. Brar, who made the statement in Delhi on Friday, was told to explain his conduct by August 5.

HSGPC Issue: DSGMC, Badal Dal held demonstration outside Sonia Gandhi’s house in Delhi

New Delhi, India (July 19, 2014): The officials of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and the leaders/ activists of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) Delhi unit yesterday held a demonstration outside Congress President Sonia Gandhi's house.

Sikhs for Justice files appeal in US court against dismissal of lawsuit against Sonia Gandhi

SFJ challenged Judge Brian M Cogan's ruling before United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court that Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) did not create any liability of Sonia Gandhi for "shielding and protecting" those Congress party members who perpetrated genocidal violence against Sikhs.

Sikhs for Justice (SJF) denied permissions to file amended complaint against Sonia Gandhi in US court

According to certain media reports, a US Federal court has denied permissions requested by a Human Rights and advocacy group – Sikhs for Justice, to file an amended complaint against India's Congress party president Sonia Gandhi in connection with a Sikh genocide 1984 related law suit.

India: Sonia Gandhi says notice in National Herald case a ‘political witch-hunt’ and would help congress ‘bounce back’

It is learnt that the Congress party's president Sonia Gandhi said (on July 09) that the notice from the Income Tax department in the National Herald newspaper case was a "political witch-hunt" and it would only help the Congress bounce back.

Court summons Sonia and Rahul in National Herald newspaper’s land grab case

In connection with the land grab case of land worth Rs 2000 crore related to the National Herald newspaper, established in 1938 by India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and shut down in 2008, a court here on Thursday summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi.

US court dismisses human rights violation case against congress president Soina Gandhi on technical ground

Holding that the Torture Victim Protection (TVPA) has a 10-year statute of limitations to hear a case against non-US petitioner’s plea in rights violation cases, a US court has dismissed a human rights violation case against Congress president Sonia Gandhi for lack of jurisdiction. Eastern district court in New York referred to an earlier decision of Supreme Court, which barred this court from entertaining case of having elder period than 10 years.

Congress dismissed reports of Sonia, Rahul Gandhi offering to resign as “speculative”

New Delhi, India (May 17, 2014): After the annoucement of Lok Sabha Elections results the Congress party is facing worst position in post-1947 history. The party that ruled India for long terms after the 1947 partition, was able secure 44 seats only.

Sikh Genocide case1984: Sonia Gandhi declines to show her passport to US Court

India's Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi has declined to provide a copy of her passport to a US court, saying that government of India had denied her permission to do so.

A careful answer but we get it now – Karan Thapar on Sonia, Rahul and 1984 Sikh Massacre

I wonder if you’ve noticed how carefully Rahul Gandhi answered a question put to him by PTI last Sunday? Asked why he had hesitated to apologise for the 1984 Sikh killings in his Times Now interview, he replied: “The prime minister of the UPA has apologised and the president of Congress party expressed regrets. I share their sentiments completely.”

US court tells Sonia Gandhi to present copy of passport to support absence claim

New York, United Sikhs (March 21, 2014): A US court has asked India's Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport to show that she was not in the US between September 2 and September 9 last year.

Jagdish Tytler withdraws name from run for Lok Sabha ticket of Congress party

New Delhi, India (March 06, 2014): Jagdish Tytler, the controversial Congress leader accused of inciting genocidal violence against the Sikhs in November 1984, has abandoned plans to run for Indian Parliament.

Sikh group challenges Congress Party’s motion to dismiss 1984 rights violation case; US Court set to hear “Sikh Genocide” Case on March 19

New York (February 17, 2014): As per information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN), the Sikh human rights group has filed a memorandum of law with US Federal Court in opposition to Congress party’s motion seeking dismissal of the pending 1984 rights violation case.

SFJ brings out ad offering $ 20K reward for info about Sonia Gandhi’s Sept. 2013 US visit

New Delhi, India (February 11, 2014): According to certain media reports a Sikh human rights advocacy group Sikhs for Justice has given an ad in a New York newspaper offering to give $ 20,000 reward to anyone ready to testify before a court if he or she has seen her in the city between September 2 and September 9, 2013.

Human Rights violation lawsuit against Sonia Gandhi: US court rejects Sikh rights group request for extension

New York, United States (February 06, 2014): It is learnt that a US Federal court of New York has rejected a request by a Sikh rights group, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) seeking more time to respond to a motion filed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi to dismiss a human rights violation case against her for lack of service of summons.

Sikh Genocide 1984 related lawsuit in US – Sonia Gandhi won’t depose in court: Attorney Ravi Batra

New York, USA (January 28, 2014): According to certain media reports Ravi Batra, counsel of Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that Sonia Gandhi will not depose in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by Sikhs for Justice in a US Federal court.

USA: Sikhs for Justice want Sonia Gandhi to depose before US court in 1984 Sikh genocide related lawsuit

New York, USA (January 26, 2014): Sikhs for Justice, a US based Sikh human rights and advocacy group wants Congress president Sonia Gandhi to depose before a New York Federal Court in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her after she informed the court that she had not visited the US in September last year and was not served summons in the case.

Sonia Gandhi responds to US Court – “I Was Not In New York” – Challenges US Court jurisdiction

New York, USA (January 2, 2014): While responding to the charges of shielding, protecting and rewarding the perpetrators of Sikh Genocide 1984, India's Congress party's President Sonia Gandhi has reportedly challenged the US Court jurisdiction to hear the rights violation case and the service of the Summons.

Charges of shielding genocide perpetrators – U.S. Court asks Sonia Gandhi to respond by January 2

New York, United States (December 17, 2013): A US Federal Court in New York has given Congress (I) President Sonia Gandhi till January 2, 2014 to respond to the charges of shielding, protecting and rewarding the perpetrators of 1984 Sikh Genocide. The rights group “Sikhs for Justice” (SFJ) filed an amended class action complaint on December 04 in US Federal Court against Sonia Gandhi, with specific instances of impunity, promotions and party tickets to Congress leaders and police officials who committed genocidal attacks on the Sikh community during November 1984.

Tug-of-war between Sonia and Modi: Who is more poisonous BJP or Congress – ask ethnic and religious minorities

Amritsar, Punjab (November 25, 2013): Taking to jibe at both the BJP and the Congress for playing 'tug of war' against each other to establish as to who is more poisonous, the Dal Khalsa claimed that for ethnic minorities both have equal substance of poison in their kitty's.

Sikhs for Justice to cite Delhi assembly ticket to Sajjan Kumar’s son in amended complaint against Sonia Gadhi in US Federal Court

New York, United States (November 25, 2013): According to certain reports the nomination of former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar's son Jag Parvesh as a candidate in Delhi assembly polls (from Sangam Vihar Colony) could figure in the amended complaint to be filed against Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a pending human rights violation case in a US court on December 3, for which an adjournment was granted by a Eastern District Court of New York on November 18, 2013 despite opposition by her counsel.

Sonia Gandhi Case – Us Court ruling – Petitioners get time to file amended complaint by December 03

New York, United States (November 20, 2013): US Federal Court in its November 18th order has given “Sikhs for Justice” (SFJ) till December 3rd to file an amended complaint against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the pending human rights violation case. Despite the opposition from Gandhi’s attorneys, the Federal court granted victims’ request for additional two weeks to amend the complaint about the role of Sonia Gandhi in protecting and shielding the Congress (I) leaders who participated in killing of Sikhs during 1984.

Sonia Gandhi engages law-firm to defend the lawsuit filed by Sikhs for Justice & survivors of Sikh genocide 1984

New York, United States (October 28, 2013): It is learnt that India’s Congress party’s president Sonia Gandhi has retained a New York law firm to defend her in a US Federal Court in a case for filed by the victims of Sikh genocide 1984 and the Sikhs for Justice, a US based human rights and advocacy group, for protecting the perpetrators of the November 1984 Sikh genocide.

US lawsuit against Sonia Gandhi: Congress lawyer sees improper practice by Sikhs for Justice

New York, USA (October 24, 2013): According to certain media reports Congress Party’s council US – Ravi Batra said Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) had indulged in "improper judge-and-venue-shopping" while filing lawsuits against the leaders in several federal courts. He was referring to recent lawsuits filed by the Sikhs for Justice and the victims/survivors of Sikh Genocide 1984 in US Federal Courts.

US court hearing – 1984 genocide victims to file amended complaint against Sonia Gandhi

New York: (October 23, 2013): During the initial hearing in the pending human rights violation case against Congress President Sonia Gandhi the rights group “Sikhs For Justice” (SFJ) filed affirmation of Service with the US Federal Court. The affirmation of service claims that pursuant to Court’s order the plaintiffs served the Sonia Gandhi through hospital and security staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

U.S. Court to hear Human Rights violation case against Congress (I) chief Sonia Gandhi on Oct 22

New York, USA (October 17, 2013): According to information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN), a Federal Court of the United States of America (USA) has ordered initial status conference in the pending case against Congress President Sonia Gandhi for shielding human rights violators. Judge Brian M. Cogan will hold the status conference on October 22 in accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 16.

U.S. Court summons delivered to Sonia Gandhi in Sikh genocide 1984 related lawsuit

New York, United States (September 11, 2013): It is learnt that in the pending case of shielding prominent Indian politicians and workers of the Congress party from any action for their involvement in the Sikh Genocide 1984, the US based Sikh rights group “Sikhs for Justice” (SFJ) on September 10, 2013, managed to get the summons of the US court served to Congress president Sonia Gandhi through hospital and security staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

Copy of U.S. Court’s order directing Hospital and Security agencies to serve summons of Sikh genocide case on Sonia Gandhi

New York, United States (September 09, 2013): As per information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN) the US Federal Judge Brain M. Cogan, has ordered service of summons and complaint on Congress President Sonia Gandhi through Hospital Staff or security personnel of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer where she is believed to be under medical care.

Sikh Genocide 1984 – Deliver summons to Sonia Gandhi: US Judge orders hospital & security agencies

New York, United States (September 09, 2013): As per information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN) the US Federal Judge Brain M. Cogan, has ordered service of summons and complaint on Congress President Sonia Gandhi through Hospital Staff or security personnel of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer where she is believed to be under medical care.

Captain Amrinder Singh condemns Sikh Genocide case against Sonia Gandhi; Criticizes Sikh diaspora activism

Patiala, Punjab (September 05, 2013): As per media reports the former Chief Minister of Punjab and a Congress party leader Captain Amarinder Singh has criticized the Sikh diaspora for for approach a US court accusing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi (President of the Congress Party) of "shielding and protecting" party members who had perpetuated and carried various massacre of Sikhs during the Sikh genocide 1984.

Copy of complaint by Sikhs for Justice against Sonia Gandhi in US Court

A US Federal Court has issued summons against Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress the ruling political party of India, for shielding and protecting the leaders, officials, members and workers of her party who had organized, committed, aided, abetted and incited the genocidal attacks on Sikhs during November 1984. This is a copy of complaint moved by the Sikhs for Justice against Sonia Gandhi.

Copy of US Court Summons Sonia Gandhi in 1984 Sikh Genocide related lawsuit

A US Federal Court has issued summons against Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress the ruling political party of India, for shielding and protecting the leaders, officials, members and workers of her party who had organized, committed, aided, abetted and incited the genocidal attacks on Sikhs during November 1984. This is a copy of Court Summons.

November 1984 Sikh Genocide – Sonia Gandhi summoned by US Court

New York, United States (September 03, 2013): A US Federal Court has issued summons against Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress the ruling political party of India, for shielding and protecting the leaders, officials, members and workers of her party who had organized, committed, aided, abetted and incited the genocidal attacks on Sikhs during November 1984.

Sajjan Kumar’s acquittal – Sikhs protested outside Congress president’s residence

New Delhi, India (May 03, 2013): On May 02, 2013 the Delhi witnessed mass protests by Sikhs in wake of acquittal of Sikh genocide accused Sajjan Kumar by an Indian court. Sajjan Kumar was inter-alia facing charges of murder and conspiracy along with five others. The court convicted other accused persons but acquitted Sajjan Kumar.

Sikh genocide 1984 survivors & AISSF to protest outside Sonia Gandhi’s house on March 09

New Delhi, India (February 28, 2013): It is learnt that the families of the victims of Sikh genocide 1984 held a protest outside Karkardooma CBI court in Delhi on February 26, 2013 against the denial of justice the victims and survivors of the November 1984 massacres.
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