Hague convention on service abroad of judicial documents

Sonia Kapoor (Querist) 16 April 2014 This query is : Resolved
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I would like to ask when a foreign party of America is serving summons on Indian Defendants via Ministry of Law under the Hague Convention, is it necessary that all the documents (service request + complaint packet) has to be original hard copies;

secondly, whether these documents needs to be directly delivered to the Ministry or delivery of documents can be done through a law firm who shall submit to the Ministry itself.

Please clarify..

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Devajyoti Barman (Expert) 16 April 2014
what is background details?
Looks like academic query.

Guest (Expert) 16 April 2014
Dear Sonia,

Your query is of academic nature and such queries normally get no response because of the reason that any response attracts several supplementary queries leading to unduly waste of time in questions and cross-questions. I know being an associate attorney, you may be in need of some clarifications in some case. But the background of case, if discussed here can make the experts to form some clear view of the case to respond appropriately to serve your purpose.

So, please discuss in brief the background of the case and why such need has arisen to serve summons from USA to some party in India and how that party is related to the case in USA.