While the current case has drawn a lot of attention, US courts summoning Indian government officials is not unprecedented. In fact, a large number of summons has been made out on the complaints of Pannun and his SFJ itself. A Washington federal court had issued summons against the then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh in April 2013 following a lawsuit by the SFJ, alleging that he was responsible for "funding crimes against humanity perpetrated upon the Sikh community in India". Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was summoned to a US court in 2016 in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Once again, the complainant in the case was the SFJ. The Congress' Kamal Nath was also subject to a subpoena in 2010 in the same case. More recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was summoned by a New York court in 2014 just ahead of his first state visit to the US following a nine-year visa ban. The case, filed by non-profit American Justice Center (AJC), had been made out in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots. PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah had also been summoned by a Texas court in 2019 over Parliament's decision to abrogate Article 370, which led to the downgrading of special privileges accorded to Jammu and Kashmir. The plaintiff, an organisation called Kashmir Khalistan Referendum Front, had sued the duo for $100 million but the case was subsequently dropped.