India Rejects Malicious US Court Summons To NSA Doval Over Terrorist Lawsuit

The Ministry of External Affairs strongly rejected fabricated and malicious attacks on Indian officials after the US state department reportedly served federal court summons. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal termed the civil lawsuit filed by designated terrorist Gurupatwant Singh Pannun as frivolous during a weekly press briefing. <b>Pannun lawsuit</b> involves an alleged plot to assassinate the separatist in New York in 2023. The civil case also names National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and former R&AW chief Samant Goel. <b>Judicial documents</b> must be routed exclusively through India's designated central authority, which is the ministry of law and justice. The lawsuit is linked to a US Department of Justice investigation involving Indian national Nikhil Gupta Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic in 2023 and subsequently extradited to the United States.