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[ashwin_ash]

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US local embassy wants more time:
to return id cards and passes
to supply information on salaries paid to embassy staff
to supply information and salary of embassy staff and spouses working in american schools for additional income.

Obama may play a different tune and withdraw or dilute attacks on DK. One thing is certain - locals will not give the information needed as it may shock the american public; indians paid a fraction of what the americans get for the same job.

Many US friendly politicians, babus and spies may not get christmas and new year gifts as the container is held up pending clearance.

US action has nothing to do with sanctity of law. They wanted to rub and humiliate the indian govt. The real reason may come out later.

Does India really matter to the US for it to humiliate? Even tiny Sri Lanka and Bangladesh humiliate India and get away with it. What matters is economic heft. China has it. Thailand has it. Sri Lanka is getting there. India has UP and Bihar.

 

[sarang]

In all tv panel discussions, all including former diplomats, without exception, assert that US has humiliated india many times - some known (abdul kalam) and many unknown to the public.

 

[ashwin_ash]

In all tv panel discussions, all including former diplomats, without exception, assert that US has humiliated india many times - some known (abdul kalam) and many unknown to the public.

Dear Sarang Sir,

Please allow me to present a different view. Indians have this "do you know who I am?" attitude. Shah Rukh Khan tried it with little success. Kamal Hassan tried it to little effect. And recently, Akhilesh Yadav and Azam Khan got what they deserved when they tried this "who I am" thing. Abdul Kalam was unfortunate, I guess.

 

[mkrishna100]

re: highlighted sentence— It seems this has something to do with the ship taken into custody in Tuticorin.

Yes that is what I guess is the root of the current controversy .I feel there will be some backhand talks between US and Indian Govt and those Sailors will be let off and this case against Deviyani will also die a natural death .

 

[sarang]

Former diplomat PrabhuDayal discusses how Indian envoys to the US end up being victim

Some relevant excerpts; link for the full article at the end.

Former diplomat Prabhu Dayal discusses how Indian envoys to the US end up being victimised as domestic helps pursue their American dreams.

Devyani worked as my deputy towards the end of my term. ---- I advised Devyani to be careful. I also told her thatthere were plenty of people around who could misguide Sangeeta and createtrouble.

For decades, domestic assistants accompanying ourdiplomats to the US have gone missing, preferring to stay there illegally andpursue their dollar dreams. Countless security guards, including many from thepolice and paramilitary services, have also done likewise. Although the USauthorities have been invariably informed whenever this has happened, they havedone nothing to nab them. As is well known, the US has a very large number ofillegal, undocumented aliens who provide cheap labour.

This is where the TVPA (Trafficking and Violence Protection Act) has opened the doors to peoplelike Sangeeta Richard, who can obtain official passports as domestic assistantsof our diplomats, get an A3 visa from the US Embassy, reach US shores, workthere for some months, abscond and then obtain a T Visa. The visa fraudallegedly committed by Devyani Khobragade was in fact committed by SangeetaRichard as she misrepresented her terms of employment to the US Embassy duringher interview with the Consular officer to get an A3 domestic worker visa whichwould later enable her to leapfrog to a trafficking T Visa.

Earlier cases: which took placein New York. Shanti Gurung worked as a housekeeper for Dr Neena Malhotra,Consul for over three years. She went missing on the eve of Dr Neena’s departure from NewYork on transfer and even more shocked when she filed a lawsuit a year lateragainst her employer alleging confinement, forced labour, slavery, illtreatment etc. No doubt, she did so to obtain a T Visa.

Mrs Santosh Bhardwaj worked as my housekeeper for twoyears in India and four years in Morocco before joining me as my domesticassistant in New York in February 2009. Eleven months later, in January 2010,she absconded from the consulate building where she lived. Seventeen monthsafter that, she filed a suit against me alleging slavery, forced labour,non-payment of full wages etc.

India’s view has been that the domestic assistants of ourdiplomats hold official passports and should be outside the purview of USlabour laws. The US side has not agreed to this, insisting that US laws applyto them. This impasse continues.

Krittika Biswas, a 12th grade student and daughter of aVice- Consul serving under me in New York. She was arrested and handcuffed infront of her fellow students at her school on the charge of cyber- bullying oneof her teachers, although she asserted that she had a diplomatic passport.

She was not allowed to contact her parents or anyone till evening, and was keptin a detention centre for 28 hours with prostitutes and drug addicts in thesame manner as Devyani. My colleagues and I had to run from pillar to post toget her released.

She was not taken back in her school but had to attend a sort of reform school.Later, it was discovered that it was not Krittika but another student who wasresponsible for the cyber- bullying, but he was not arrested. What can one make of this except that the New York law enforcementagencies were biased and high- handed?

How will India protect its diplomats posted to theconsulates given the US position on immunity? Drastic situations call fordrastic steps, and if we can’t learn from bad experiences, then we alone are tobe blamed.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/how-indian-envoys-to-the-us-can-fall-victim-to-maids-054010858.html