San Francisco, July 6 -- The US Department of Justice (DoJ) strongly defended its decision to drop the high-profile charges of the alleged criminal bribery case against Gautam Adani, citing evidentiary weakness, jurisdictional overreach, and constitutional limits on judicial power.

US legal expert Adam Goldberg, Partner Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman said that the US DoJ in its reply had detailed that the case falls outside the very clearly delineated priorities of this administration.

"The most significant is likely the fact that the case falls outside the very clearly delineated priorities of this administration. So there was no, for example, national security basis. There was no tie to transnational criminal organizations. In pausin...