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Criticizing the US prosecutor for making statement for "post facto rationalization" for an action that should never have taken place in the first instance, external affairs ministry Spokesperson said there were no courtesies extended to Khobragade, who is the only "victim" in this case.
He said despite acknowledging that legal process were in place in India, the statement talks why it was necessary to evacuate the family of absconding maid Sangeeta Richard, thereby, making "implicit comment" about the Indian legal system, its enforcement authorities, and the responsibility that legal officials of a foreign government seem to "arrogate upon" themselves with regard to nationals of another country.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Devyani-Khobragades-arrest-India-hits-back-at-US-attorney-Preet-Bharara/articleshow/27658479.cms
The furor in India regarding US high-handedness doesn't appear to be dying down.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)in India are being harassed and exposed to security risks. I think we should bring our people home. I can't imagine the US reacting in such an overblown, petty way if a US diplomat in India or any country was arrested, searched, and released unharmed the same day.
Egalitarian Thug
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The US Attorney in this case was born in Firozpur, India.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The diplomat is a Hindu dalit.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)since according to the link below it was agents of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service that arrested her.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/more-fallout-from-diplomats-strip-search-arrest/2013/12/18/51c0c11c-67eb-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html
Yes foreign diplomats need to follow US law while they are in this country and I am not condoning what Khobragade did, if she in fact did it, but this was handled remarkably poorly. Even if Khobragade is guilty, there was no reason I can see to have handled this in the manner it was done. There is nothing to indicate that Khobragade, a diplomat from another country, was a danger to anyone, so why the need to publically arrest her?