US Sikh sues Indian diplomat for defamation

Ludhiana | Friday | 16th November, 2018

Summary:

JALANDHAR: A Connecticut-based Sikh activist has sued Consul General of India (CGI) in New York Sandeep Chakravorty for defamation. The anti-Sikh violence was reprehensible and the judicial process to bring the perpetrators to justice is going on in India,” he argued. In his letter to Connecticut senator Cathy Osten on November 5, Chakravorty had used strong adjectives against ‘fringe/radical elements of Sikh community in Connecticut’ for carrying on their ‘pernicious and divisive campaign as they see money and power for themselves’. The purpose of the people who persuaded you to support the state resolution is to weaken India through divisive policies and this you will agree that we cannot allow to succeed. “These numbers are blatant exaggerations and do not convey the reality..