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| Questions hang over India-US spat |
| Questions hang over India-US spat over Devyani Khobragade
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 28-December-2013
9:0:39 AM |
| As diplomats try to work out a way to resolve the India-US diplomatic row triggered by the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat, several questions hang over the unsavory episode.
Who in the State Department signed off on the arrest of Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her nanny, unmindful of the consequences?
Would housekeeper Sangeeta Richard's allegations against her employer have gained so much traction without her family's contacts with the US embassy, with her father-in-law reported to be working for a US diplomat in Delhi?
Did New York's Indian-American prosecutor Preet Bharara really goof up in mistaking Khobragade's own salary of $4,500 mentioned in the visa application with the one she contracted to pay to Richard as alleged by the Indian diplomat's lawyer?
Was the US side not aware that Khobragade, who has since been transferred to India's permanent mission to the UN, was entitled to full diplomatic immunity even at the time of her December 12 arrest, thanks to her concurrent accreditation to the UN since August 26?
And why did take New Delhi so long to discover that Khobragade may have had diplomatic immunity all along and bring it to the attention of the State Department, which has now promised to examine the claim?
Few answers were forthcoming as India's new ambassador S. Jaishankar plunged into the task of resolving the crisis with meetings on Thursday with Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy.
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