This is the height of stupidity, or may be it is all intentional:
Ambika Soni, even vowed to enter the auction if required as a last resort. But in the end, officials decided not to do so, because the Delhi High Court had ordered an injunction to stop the auction in response to a petition filed by the Navajivan Trust, a publishing house that is Gandhis legal heir. (Mr. Otiss items were acquired legally; some of them had been given away by Gandhi himself.)
The Indian government said that news of the injunction was passed to both the auction house and Mr. Otis, but the auction house said the Indian court had no jurisdiction in the United States.
The government cant participate because this would be contempt of court, Prabhu Dayal, Indias consul general in New York, said in an interview on Thursday morning. This is getting more complicated.
Now, even a child would know that the Indian courts have no jurisdiction in the United States, so what was the f***ing sense behind filing a petition and getting an injunction to stop the auction? Wasn’t it counterproductive? As Ambika Soni said that the Indian government would even take part in the auction in order to obtain the items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi. Due to this stupid injunction that has no relevance in the US the Indian government could not participate. I’m not saying that Mallya shouldn’t have won the bid but what if some other person from another country with no emotional attachment had won (I don’t mean to say you have emotional attachment just because you’re an Indian but the chance is greater)? The Indians can sometimes surpass anybody when it comes to being nihilistically proactive.
My thoughts are based on this link.
