A US court has rejected claims by Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun that he served National Security Advisor Ajit Doval with court documents, including a summons, during Doval's visit to Washington in February, PTI reported.
The US District Judge Katherine Polk Fiala stated in a recent order, as quoted by PTI: The court has reviewed the above letter and attached exhibits... and finds that service was not completed. The complaint was not delivered to a member of the hotel management or staff or to any officers or agents providing security for the defendant, as required by the court's order.
While, Pannun claimed in court papers that when Doval was in Washington, accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the visit to meet US President Donald Trump on February 12-13, he had “hired two process servers and one investigator” to serve the complaint on the National Security Advisor (NSA).
In the first instance, an attempt was made to reach Doval on February 12 at Blair House, the President's guest house where Modi and his delegation stayed during their DC visit.
Pannun said in court documents that Blair House was well-secured and barricaded, with Secret Service agents manning the only checkpoint. The individual tasked with serving the complaint approached one of the agents and explained that he was there to serve legal documents on Doval and “that he had a Court Order permitting service of the documents on any member of the Secret Service providing security” during the NSA's stay.
“He showed the Secret Service agent a copy of this Court라이브 바카라 Order, but the agent refused to accept any documents and told the individual to leave the checkpoint. Feared that if he took any further action he would be arrested ,” Pannun said in court papers as quoted by PTI.
The next day, on February 13, another individual attempted to serve the documents on Doval at Blair House but “three Secret Service agents”, including a Sergeant, stopped him “at the checkpoint outside Blair House, refused to allow him beyond the checkpoint, and refused to accept any documents”.
The individual told the agents that he would place the envelope containing the service documents on the ground in front of them but one of the agents told him that “if he left the documents on the ground, agents would arrest him”.
The individual then left the documents at a coffee store near Blair House and told the Secret Service agents to retrieve them and give them to Doval. In court papers, Pannun claims that he has completed the process of serving the complaint on Doval, which the court rejected.
Pannun has filed a civil lawsuit against Doval and Nikhil Gupta. Gupta has been charged by federal prosecutors in an indictment with working with an Indian government employee in the foiled plot to kill Pannun on American soil.
