Sahara asks US court to reject attachment plea for hotels

Slapped with a $350 million lawsuit seeking attachment of its two prized hotels here, crisis-ridden Sahara has told a US court here that it has been wrongly dragged into a dispute between two entities over ‘a potential business relationship gone sour’.Seeking an immediate rejection of a plea by Hong Kong- based JTS Trading to attach Sahara's Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels here, the Indian conglomerate has submitted before the Supreme Court of the State of New York that the ‘plaintiff is attempting to attach property that falls outside of the jurisdiction of this Court.’ 

“Even if the Court were to ignore the obvious jurisdictional deficiency, Plaintiff would not be entitled to the relief it seeks because it is seeking to attach the property of non-parties that are not implicated by the allegations in the complaint,” Sahara said in a submission before the Court.