The UN rights office stated that allegations of repeated patterns of torture or ill-treatment, such as forced medical care and unfavourable prison conditions, are believable.
All of these officials and a number of others have received summonses from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which were served on them in India earlier this year.
According to Shantanu Deshpande, CEO of the Bombay Shaving Company, his parents received messages saying things such, "Your son is a slave owner."