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Indian deputy consul general arrested in US on visa fraud charges

She should be severely punished in the Adarsh scam, I don't care. But I care if she is mistreated in the US because she represents my country there. Also the visa problem is a technicality which all Indian diplomats face there. All the countries have updated their policies, except us.

The way this case was handled only shows that US wanted to offend India, they have been doing that for the past few years. We kept quiet and now they went a bit too far. So I feel that we should bring her back to India and then punish her for her part in Adarsh scam.
 
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Pizza outlet attacked as India, US fail to cool diplomat row
By Reuters
Published: December 20, 2013

NEW DELHI: Indian protesters ransacked a Dominos Pizza outlet in Mumbai on Friday, demanding a ban on US goods as officials from the two countries struggled to defuse a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.

Police and the Indian franchise of the US chain said no one was hurt in the attack, which came amid unrelenting rage in India over the arrest and subsequent strip-search of Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud and under-payment of her housekeeper.

India has demanded that the charges be dropped against the diplomat.

Khobragade’s father has also reportedly threatened to start a fast if US authorities decide to press ahead with the case.

US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed regret over the case in a phone call to India’s national security advisor this week, but US prosecutors have defended the investigation against Khobragade and her treatment.

Police in Mumbai said they were stepping up patrolling of major US outlets including McDonald’s after workers of the small Republican Party of India attacked the Dominos store. The group sent pictures to media organizations showing a broken glass door.

“The fact is that (the) American authorities have behaved atrociously with an Indian diplomat. And obviously, America has to make good for its actions,” said Manish Tiwari, minister for information and broadcasting.

“So therefore, I think it is a legitimate expectation, that if they have erred, and they have erred grievously in this matter, they should come forth and apologize,” he added.

Khobragade was arrested last week and released on a $250,000 bail after giving up her passport and pleading not guilty to charges of visa fraud and making false statements about how much she paid her housekeeper. She faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted on both counts.

The US Justice Department confirmed that Khobragade was strip-searched after her arrest. A senior Indian government source has said that the interrogation also included a cavity search, although US officials have denied this.

“I want these false and fabricated charges to be dropped,” said Uttam Khobragade, the diplomat’s father, adding that he would go on a hunger strike if his demands aren’t met. “That will be my last option.”

Protesters also gathered at the US consulate in Hyderabad for a second day on Friday, shouting slogans, local media reported.

Furious that one of its Foreign Service officers had been handcuffed and treated like “a common criminal”, India on Tuesday removed security barriers outside the US embassy in New Delhi and withdrew some privileges from US diplomats.

The reaction was more intense as none of the political parties preparing for next year’s election wanted to be seen as weak against a superpower.

Politicians, including the leaders of the two main parties, refused to meet a delegation of visiting US lawmakers.

“Because of the election, they will try to outdo each other,” said Neerja Chowdhury, a political analyst and a former political editor of Indian Express newspaper.

“They don’t want to be seen as weak on the issue when the mood in the country is one of huge anger about this,” she said.

The party that runs India’s most populous Uttar Pradesh state urged Khobragade to stand for parliament, highlighting how public outrage has turned the case into a battleground for votes.

“Whatever happened with her is condemnable,” said Azam Khan, the state’s urban development minister, according to media reports. “If she returns to India, we are ready to give her a ticket for the 2014 polls.”

Coverage by Indian TV news channels has added to a sense that national pride has been wounded.

There has been little focus, however, on the predicament of the housekeeper, whose lawyer says was denied her wages, underpaid and now feels it would be unsafe to return to India.

“One wonders why there is so much outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian national accused of perpetrating these acts, but precious little outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian victim and her spouse,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Devyani Khobragade row: US refuses to drop charges- BBC
 
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@Always Neutral, you were basically saying that since she was facing trial in some scams here in India she can be arrested in US for another case irrespective of the post she is holding.. In that case, I am sure that there are many British diplomats and ministers facing legal activities there in UK and your country wont mind them get arrested in any part of the world..
 
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She should be severely punished in the Adarsh scam, I don't care. But I care if she is mistreated in the US because she represents my country there. Also the visa problem is a technicality which all Indian diplomats face there. All the countries have updated their policies, except us.

The way this case was handled only shows that US wanted to offend India, they have been doing that for the past few years. We kept quiet and now they went a bit too far. So I feel that we should bring her back to India and then punish her for her part in Adarsh scam.


She will go back when she finish serving her time here. The only worse punishment I can think of is to make her ride the bus to work in New Delhi everyday.
 
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All Indians living in US are fkin weak and slave people working for their white bosses.

All they see is $ and green card. Don't have a bit of love for nation left.

They can protest for gays in India but can't raise their voice in support of Indian woman, why ?

H1B visa.
 
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@Always Neutral, you were basically saying that since she was facing trial in some scams here in India she can be arrested in US for another case irrespective of the post she is holding.. In that case, I am sure that there are many British diplomats and ministers facing legal activities there in UK and your country wont mind them get arrested in any part of the world..

No what I am saying she is a serial liar. She gives fakes affidavit where ever she goes. Please read these links breaking in India now. Btw if any of our diplomats are corrupt please feel free to arrest them and save us the time

http://www.firstpost.com/india/how-...vyanis-larger-adarsh-controversy-1296429.html

Devyani Khobragade owns a flat in the infamous Adarsh. Her father Uttam Khobragade was one of the bureaucrats who allegedly misused their positions to help Adarsh. It was during his tenure as general manager of BEST, the civic-owned bus and electricity utility in Mumbai, that the Adarsh Society got additional building rights from an adjacent BEST bus depot. This allowed the society promoters to increase the original plan of six floors to a massive 31 floors. While the Khobragades may want us to believe this is mere coincidence, only other bureaucrats and politicians caught with their hands in the Adarsh till may take such a claim at face value.
 
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Washington: Is the US decision to arrest and strip search Indian diplomat Devyani Khobrgade on charges of visa fraud, sparking a major diplomatic row with what it calls an "incredibly important" partner, a case of classic American double standards?

It would appear so going by at least two recent cases relating to Saudi Arabian and Russian diplomats.

At Thursday's State Department press briefing, spokesperson Marie Harf had no clear answer to the difference in the treatment of Khobragade and "Saudi diplomats who allegedly committed even more egregious crimes."

According to the questioner, two Filipino women were rescued escaping the Saudi diplomatic military attaché's residence in a Washington suburb. But "no Saudi diplomats have been charged, none of them have been cavity-searched."

All that Harf could say in response was that she "was not aware of all the details of that case" and didn't "want to make a comparison about why something was or wasn't done.

"Each case is different, though," she suggested. "Obviously, we take any (such) allegation very seriously and we investigate them when they're brought to our attention."

But the case against the Russians really takes the cake particularly since it took place in the very borough Manhattan's India-born US attorney Preet Bharara, who has brazenly defended his actions against Khobragade as based on the principle of equality before law.

His office's "sole motivation in this case, as in all cases, is to uphold the rule of law, protect victims, and hold accountable anyone who breaks the law - no matter what their societal status and no matter how powerful, rich or connected they are," he said.

It took his office ten long years to make a case against 49 Russian diplomats and their spouses charged with scamming Medicaid, a government health care programme for low-income families, out of $1.5 million over a decade. All of them worked in New York either at the Russian mission to the UN, the Russian consulate or the Russian trade representation office when they committed the alleged fraud.

But Bharara could not lay his hands on any of them. For by the time he filed charges just a week before he chose to act against Khobragade, only 11 of them remained in the US. But none has been taken into custody as they all have diplomatic immunity.

Ten of them are diplomats working with the Russian mission to the UN and their spouses, and one is now stationed at the Russian embassy in Washington. But at the time of the charged offences, he was employed at the consulate in New York.

Harf Thursday suggested that Khobragade, who has been transferred to India's permanent mission to the UN, would not have "retroactive" immunity after her change of status from consular officer to diplomat. If so, how come, the Russian diplomat working in Washington is roaming free when the offence he is charged with took place when he worked at the Russian consulate in New York?

"Diplomacy should be about extending hands, not picking pockets in the host country," said Bharara at a press conference announcing the charges which have next to no chance of moving forward.

But Harf was more circumspect in saying they were still "reviewing the charges" and "the relationship is much bigger and deeper and broader and more complicated than that."

Like in Khobragade's case, Bharara's actions sparked outrage in Russia.

Rejecting the charges, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow had many claims against the behaviour of US diplomats in Moscow but had preferred not to bring them into the public sphere.

It has been two weeks since the charges were filed against the Russians. But to date Moscow has not waived their immunity nor has Washington asked them to leave!
 
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Kudos to India for defending the virtue and dignity of their women abroad and raping them at home.

Awesome dude, Very Nicely put it! Couldn't have said it any better!
That is 'EXACTLY' what the Injin Mindset is!!!!!
 
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All Indians living in US are fkin weak and slave people working for their white bosses.

All they see is $ and green card. Don't have a bit of love for nation left.

They can protest for gays in India but can't raise their voice in support of Indian woman, why ?

H1B visa.

Even some Indians here have the colonialist apologist attitudes , its just far far worse in Britain and U.S (may be not all Indians , but majority are morons)
 
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All Indians living in US are fkin weak and slave people working for their white bosses.

All they see is $ and green card. Don't have a bit of love for nation left.

They can protest for gays in India but can't raise their voice in support of Indian woman, why ?

H1B visa.

They protest for gays because most of them are gays themselves, which has an impact on their lifestyle as for the 'Indian woman' , is she honest, or the victim as she tries to project herself to justify a protest ?

Diplomat Devyani not eligible for Adarsh flat: Panel - Rediff.com India News

Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who is at the centre of a diplomatic row with the United States, is one of the 25 allottees who have been found ineligible to own a flat in the controversial Adarsh Housing society by a judicial panel which probed the scam.

According to Maharashtra government rules, an official applying for a flat under a government quota has to give a signed affidavit stating that they do not own any other flat. Devyani had an apartment in Oshiwara locality in the city which too she had got under the government quota.

Her father Uttam Khobragade, a retired IAS officer, was alleged to have facilitated extra floor space index (FSI) to the upscale 31-storey Adarsh society in Colaba by transferring an adjoining Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) plot to the society.

Uttam Khobragade has, however, denied any wrongdoing in the scam

US says visa fraud case against Khobragade would remain - Rediff.com India News
 
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