New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a federal court for permission to personally email summons to billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew, Sagar Adani, after the US market regulator claimed that India's Ministry of Law and Justice rejected its request twice in the last 14 months.

"Approximately fourteen months ago, the SEC filed charges against Defendants Gautam Adani and Sagar Adani, prominent Indian business leaders, arising from a $750 million bond offering that raised $175 million from US investors," SEC's counsel Christopher M. Colorado wrote in a letter, dated 21 January 2026.

"Since then, Defendants have retained three US law firms and issued multiple public statements denying the SEC's...