The Indian government has asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss Britain’s Cairn Energy suit seeking enforcement of a USD 1.2 billion arbitral award, saying it had sovereign immunity under US law.
Cairn had in May asked a US federal court to force Air India to pay a USD 1.26 billion arbitration award the firm had won in December.
The government on August 13 filed a ‘Motion to Dismiss’ petition in the US District Court for the District of Colombia, saying it lacked subject matter jurisdiction in the dispute between Cairn and the Indian tax authority, according to a filing seen by PTI.
