Diplomat Devyani Khobragade Stripped of Her
Charge, Put Under 'Compulsory Wait'
NEW DELHI: A week after diplomat
Devyani Khobragade spoke to NDTV about her arrest and strip search in the US,
the Ministry of External Affairs has stripped her of her duties as director in
the partnership development division. The ministry has said that Ms Khobragade
did not take due permission before making statements and put her under
"compulsory watch".
Sources say that the
administrative action was taken against Ms Khobragade also because the ministry
is "miffed" with the IFS officer for not disclosing that her children
have US passports. She is facing a vigilance inquiry over the issue, which she
staunchly defended in her interview to NDTV.
"Some false
reports have come in the newspapers that there is some illegality around my
children's passports and that I hid a fact that my children have American
passports. There is nothing of that sort, I myself informed the government that
my kids were born in the US and are considered US citizens,
Speaking about the
allegations against her of falsifying documents by the judicial panel that
investigated the Adarsh scam, Ms Khobragade said, "My father never handled
the Adarsh file, therefore he never violated any of the service rules. The CBI
has now closed its inquiry and neither my name nor my father's name figures in
that report. So that rests the allegations of corruption and wrongdoing."
Ms Khobragade, a
1999 Indian Foreign Service officer and mother of two daughters, was arrested
and strip-searched in New York in December last year on charges of ill-treating
her domestic help. The incident had strained the relations between two countries.
Both Ms Khobragade
and the Indian government have denied those charges. Ms Khobragade has now
returned to India.
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from <http:www.ndtv.com