Posted on 12/17/2013 10:59:04 AM PST by posterchild
NEW DELHI (AP) — The arrest and alleged strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York City escalated into a major diplomatic furor Tuesday as India's national security adviser called the woman's treatment "despicable and barbaric."
Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, is accused of submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her Manhattan housekeeper. Indian officials said she was arrested and handcuffed Thursday as she dropped off her daughter at school, and was kept in a cell with drug addicts before posting $250,000 bail.
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India - a US ally. Obama must alienate them for the sake of Muslims everywhere. By the time he leaves office, we may not have any friends except the Muzzie Brotherhood and Al Quaeda.
that’s right if you break the law with impunity you should be treated like his lordship O
From an earlier thread:
Furious India downgrades privileges of US diplomats
Outraged by the details of the alleged harsh treatment meted out to its deputy consul-general in New York, India Tuesday retaliated strongly with a series of measures that jolted the perception of friendly ties between New Delhi and Washington.
US consulate staff and their families were asked to return their diplomatic ID cards; details of Indians employed, along with their bank accounts and PAN numbers, sought; names and salaries of teachers employed at US embassy schools sought; import duty waivers, including permits to import liquor, withdrawn; and security barricades outside the US Embassy in Delhi removed.
Devyani Khobragade, the deputy consul-general, was arrested last week for alleged visa fraud while she had gone to drop her daughters to school.
Besides being handcuffed in public, Khobragade, 39, was not only stripped but also allegedly forced to undergo repeated body cavity searches - a treatment usually reserved for drug suspects - before she was freed on a $250,000 bail bond.
Subsequently, Khobragade narrated her ordeal in an email to her colleagues.
“I must admit that I broke down many times as the indignities of repeated handcuffing, stripping and cavity searches, swabbing, hold up with common criminals and drug addicts were all being imposed upon me despite my incessant assertions of immunity,” the 1999-batch IFS officer wrote.
She thanked her colleagues for their support and said that during her confinement, she “got the strength to regain composure and remain dignified thinking that I must represent all of my colleagues and my country with confidence and pride”.
Disturbed by the details, New Delhi upped the ante and stripped US diplomats and their families in India of several privileges.
Taking the position that American staff at consulates will be treated at par with which Indian diplomats are treated in consulates in the US, all personnel posted in consulates and their families have been asked to turn in their diplomatic ID cards immediately.
On the instructions of the government, the special barricading outside the US Embassy in New Delhi that had closed a part of Nyaya Marg to the public, was also removed. While the barricading and closing of the stretch of road has ended, a police picket will remain there for security purposes.
Making a distinction between consulate and embassy staff - the US has four consulates in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad - instructions have been sent out that details of all Indians employed at the consulates have to be shared.
Besides, US staff at the consulates have been asked to provide details of the employment of their spouses or dependents along with tax details, bank account numbers and salary details.
In related moves, political leaders, ministers and Indian government officials have also cancelled their meetings with a visiting US Congressional delegation. Those who called off meetings with the delegation include Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.
Describing the incident as “unacceptable”, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that a process has been “put in motion” to deal with the issue effectively.
“We have put in motion what we believe would be an effective way of addressing the issue...we have expressed our deep distress and sense of disquiet, that has been very very strongly felt, in the strongest words possible,” he said.
BJP leader Ravishankar Prasad condemned the incident and said that the treatment of the diplomat “does not accord to the level of friendship that the Indian government claims to have with the US”.
“The way she was arrested after being handcuffed, kept with drug addicts and strip-searched in the police station, that is condemnable, reprehensible and regrettable and in clear violation of conventions,” he said.
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon, who also called off his meeting with the Congressional delegation, termed the treatment meted out to the diplomat as “despicable” and “barbaric”.
When will our national nightmare be over, dear Lord?
Sharia Law now rules in New York City. Strip searching “Infidels” and imprisoning them. Well, sort of. We are becoming, no, we now are the 4th Reich. Nazism has overtaken our government
I had always thought there was a strip search when you are booked and brought into a secure facility.
I think India should have ordered all US diplomats, family and staff to leave the country within 24hrs.
Persona Non Grata.
There is no excuse possible for this treatment of an Indian diplomat.
She’s twice as Not Guilty as most accused perps...
I hope they didn’t shoot her dog.
From the article: “That reaction may look outsized in the United States, but the case touches on a string of issues that strike deeply in India, where the fear of public humiliation resonates strongly and heavy-handed treatment by the police is normally reserved for the poor.”
Nice. This pampered diplomat expects different treatment because she is wealthy. She was paying her Indian “housekeeper” $572/month for 40+ hours per week.
Agree 100%.
Just another reason to hate NYC. I apologize to the civilized people of India for the barbarism of the overlords of my country. Seriously.
Definitely not guilty!
A body cavity search - anal, vaginal, the whole cloth.
Oh my horrible, like the opinion of a forward looking country like India that still has a caste system in place means diddly spit!
Development #6 of 10:
The BJP's Yashwant Sinha said [what India has done so far] was not enough action. He said, "The media has reported that we have issued visas to a number of US diplomats' companions. Companions means that they are of the same sex. Now, after the Supreme Court ruling (on gay sex verdict), it is completely illegal in our country. Just as paying fewer wage was illegal in the US. So, why doesn't the Government of India go ahead and arrest all of them! Put them behind bars, prosecute them in this country and punish them?"
NDTV is an Indian website.
Yup. Tells you a lot about India.
The rich are treated exactly the same as the poor here.
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