A federal appeals court has dismissed a 1984 Sikh rights violation case filed against the Congress  by a rights group, saying that the case does not sufficiently "touch and concern" the US.   

A three-judge panel of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the case, dismissing charges made by rights group Sikhs for Justice that the Congress was responsible for extra judicial killings and the riots that followed the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.   

The panel ruled that "even assuming that, as plaintiffs allege, defendants-appellees Indian National Congress Partyand (Congress leader) Kamal Nath carried out or were responsible for acts of violence against Sikhs, those acts were taken by Indian nationals against other nationals in the country. Under the presumption against extraterritoriality,we lack jurisdiction over plaintiffs' claims."