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Showing posts with label Devyani Khobragade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Devyani Khobragade. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Devyani Video on Strip and Cavity Search is on You Tube: No American Can be Proud of it

There is a video doing the rounds of You Tube.The video shows the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade being subjected to a strip search and her privates being opened up. Its a shocking video and is a violation of human dignity. One wonders that for a an offence of visa violation and underpayment to her maid this sort of behavior by the NY Police is just barbaric and inhuman or not ?
Too long has the USA acted in a a arbitrary manner with its well wishers and allies. Though the state department has claimed the video is a fake, I don't think so. It shows a woman screaming and shouting while the her body search was being done. I fail to understand why it was done ? A police personal opening her thighs is a shot that can be termed shocking( it was part of cavity search) The US diplomats have lost many privileges in India now and for once India has hit back. It is about time the USA realized that India should not be trifled with and it must act the way it does with China of who the USA is mortally scared.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Devyani Khobragade is Stinking Rich: Yet Violated all Laws

Deviant Khobragade has been given a reprieve by the foreign office. She has been transferred to the United Nations. This will give her immunity from arrest. The Indian government has backed her, but there is another side to her actions which needs to be highlighted.

Devyani could have easily paid her maid, the minimum wages as per the US act. She is awfully rich. In fact she owns 11 prime properties in India including a flat in Mumbai's controversial Adarsh housing society worth 2 million dollars. The flat was for Kargil war widows was taken by giving a false affidavit and documents.

The US has clearly pointed out these facts. Frankly its a shame that the lady who looks demure should have done such things. She could have paid the maid, but Indian officers living in a feudal world haven't come to terms with the labor laws that servants also have rights. They exploit them to the hilt. This charge Devyani must answer. The US is answering, by not dropping charges and only freezing them. The lady is perhaps a backward caste and made it to the IFS in reserved category. Not much should be read about her ability.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Devyani Khobragade has a lot to Answer: Financial Irregularities

. The Lady looks demure, but thats about all Devyani Khobragade is in the news. This Indian Foreign service officer was arrested by the New York police on charges of Visa fraud and violation of the minimum wages act in the USA. The Indian press led by Arnab Goswamy of Times News Channel have gone overboard in defending Devyani. I wonder how a responsible person like Arnab, who is the sheet anchor of the Times Channel, could have overlooked certain other facts. The treatment meted to Devyani need not be thought of as special as I have even seen photographs of the great Micheal Jackson being handcuffed.
Jackson Handcuffed What needs to be highlighted is the amassment of wealth by this lady. No channel except Headlines Today (which made a passing reference) to the wealth amassed by Devyani. She reportedly took a flat worth 2 million dollars by ‘Irregular’ means in the Adarsh housing society. Her name is mentioned in the inquiry commission’s report as a person who took the flat by giving false documents. Incidentally these flats were meant for war widows. Obviously this calls for action and the complete takeover of the flat. Will Arnab bring this to the fore? The lady has also 34 acres of prime wine land in Nasik. How did she manage it? It’s about time the news channels brought her activities under the scanner and not keep harping on her treatment in the USA, which in any case was nothing out of the ordinary

Friday, December 20, 2013

Arrest of Devyani Khobragade in Newy York, In convenient Questions for Indian Government and the Diplomat

Devyani Khobragade, 39, India's Deputy Consul General in New York, was charged last week with one count of visa fraud and one count of making false statements, which carry maximum sentences of ten years and five years in prison, respectively. There is a hue and cry in India about the arrest and the fact that she was handcuffed and had to submit to a body search. Maybe these need investigation, but the fact is Devyani has a lot to answer.
Firstly she is well heeled and owns 34 acres of land in Maharashtra including a flat in Mumbai worth 2 million dollars. Yet she refused to pay the maid minimum wages as decreed in the USA and used her services for over 90 hours a week. The lady looks demure in photographs but the fact is she has a lot to answer for. How did she manage all this property on her meager salary. I understand she is a backward caste and as such even her selection in the Indian Foreign service is more on her caste reservation than merit. For the lady to cry wolf and make a scene is uncalled for. She must first answer inconvenient questions which I have posed. The government should stop this mentality of servants and valets for the Indian officers as it is a hangover of the colonial period. But who will bell the cat