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New Delhi: A former chief justice of India and a former chairperson of India’s Central Electricity Authority were among a team of heavyweight legal and policy experts whose opinions were submitted by Gautam Adani’s defence lawyers to the US Department of Justice as part of an extensive effort to persuade prosecutors to abandon their criminal case against the Indian billionaire.

The disclosure is contained in a 15-page filing submitted on Tuesday by lawyers representing Gautam Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani and Adani Green Energy chief executive Vneet Jaain before Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The filing urges the court to approve the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the indictment with prejudice as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed settlement of its parallel civil case.

But beyond seeking the court’s approval, the filing also provides the first detailed account of the months-long campaign mounted by Adani’s legal team to convince the DOJ that the prosecution should be abandoned. The effort began weeks after the SEC told the court in January that it had been unable to serve summons on Gautam and Sagar Adani in India for more than 14 months.

According to the filing, Adani’s lawyers submitted a 118-page memorandum to the DOJ accompanied by a nine-page cover letter, followed by further written submissions and presentations over the next two months.

“In total,” the lawyers wrote, “the Adani DOJ Defendants submitted nearly 500 pages of facts, law, expert testimony and argument to the DOJ between February 3, 2026 and April 17, 2026.”

The submissions included around 200 pages of expert reports prepared by “a securities law professor at Harvard Law School, a former SEC Commissioner and Acting Chairman, a former Chief Justice of India and a former Chairperson of the........

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