US regulator says India declined twice to serve legal papers under the Hague Convention, prompting it to seek court approval to directly email summons to Gautam and Sagar Adani ....
The money laundering investigation by the ED stems from a case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 17, 2022, over alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy for 2021-22 ... .
... to the filing quoted in a Reuters report, the SEC told the court that its earlier attempts to deliver the summons through official channels had failed after India declined two such requests.