NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have total immunity ---)

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have total immunity from legal proceedings in the US that have been initiated by human rights activists, the Obama administration said on Friday even as the Indian leader arrived in New York to purported court orders pertaining to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Radical Sikh activists who have been carrying out a legal campaign in US to shame the Indian government for perceived human rights excesses attempted to embarrass Modi ahead of his arrival in New York by initiating legal action, resulting in a court order seeking his response to the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. But the Obama administration stepped in to assure the visiting leader that he's safe from any legal wrangles.