NEW YORK – A US court here has set a pre-trial hearing in April in the lawsuit filed by a Sikh rights group asking that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) be designated as a “foreign terrorist organisation” for alleged violent acts against religious minorities in India.
US District Judge Laura Swain of the Southern District of New York set the pre-trial hearing for April 24.
The lawsuit filed by the Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) asked the court to designate the RSS as terror group “for believing in and practising a fascist ideology and for running a passionate, vicious and violent campaign to turn India into a Hindu nation with a homogeneous religious and cultural identity.”
The group has accused the RSS of targeting religious minorities in India.
