Sonia Gandhi declines to provide passport copy to US court

“It appears that much as our government's Secret Service and Diplomatic Security agents need to keep their means and methods confidential, so too do the Indian authorities with respect to those they are charged with protecting,” he said.  

He said that Gandhi “wishes to be as cooperative as she can” in resolving the lawsuit brought against her by the rights group to arrive at a final determination” of the case, “notwithstanding that she was not in the United States, nor served with process.”

Batra said Gandhi does not possess records of the US government agencies, such as Customs and Border Protection entry and exit stamps into and out of the US or records of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center “given she was not there during the subject period.”