American conspiracy behind Devyani Khobargade’s arrest!
By Kanchan Gupta on18 Dec 2013
The maid Sangeeta Richard’s family was flown out of India two days before the diplomat was arrested. There are allegations that the US authorities had even paid for the passage of the maid’s family.
Kanchan Gupta US State Department was informed maid's passport had been revoked. They were told to locate missing maid. Yet US gives family visas?
This is absolutely unbelievable. US gave visas to maid's family despite knowing of court orders?
Devyani's maid's family whisked out of India by US on Dec 10? What's happening?
- Far too many questions than answers in the Devyani case. Some more questions got added today.
- All who were "harassed' (at work, while commuting, by a sarkari babu, by a municipality clerk) today please apply for and demand a US visa.
- @TheHinduPhantom No. The maid has two children. Neither the kids nor the husband was ever 'taken into custody'.
Family of Devyani’s maid whisked off to US 2 days before diplomat’s arrest
The American conspiracy behind Devyani Khobargade’s arrest began to unravel when it was learnt that the maid Sangeeta Richard’s family was flown out of India two days before the diplomat was arrested. there are allegations that the US authorities had even paid for the passage of the maid’s family. Though it is premature to guess what could be the motive behind this preempted move, yet conspiracy theorists are spinning various stories.
According to reports, the husband and two children of the absconding maid had obtained US visas and flown to New York.
Meanwhile, India has shifted Devyani Khobragade to permanent mission in New York to ensure diplomatic immunity.
39-year-old Khobragade, a 1999-batch IFS officer, was taken into custody on a street in New York as she was dropping her daughter to school before being released on a $ 250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in court.
Earlier, she was released on a $ 250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in court.
Devyani Khobragade, 39, was taken into custody on a street as she was dropping her daughter to school at 9 am on December 12 after the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, India-born Preet Bharara, announced charges of visa fraud against her.
Here is a timeline of how the case which has snowballed into a major diplomatic face-off -
Devyani Khobragade’s maid Sangeeta Richard had arrived in the US and started to work for on since November 23, 2012.
Richard expressed her desire to work outside on her off days but she was prohibited from doing so since it was illegal according to her visa status since she had an official passport on March 2013.
Sangeeta Richard left the diplomat’s home to buy groceries on June 23, never to return. Devyani Khobragade informed the Consulate General of this development, who in turn informed the concerned authorities on the same day.
Sangeeta Richard had visited an immigration attorney in New York on July 8.
It is reported that there were discussions and that Sangeeta Richard demanded a certain sum as her wages and an ordinary Indian passport.
The Indian Government revoked Sangeeta Richard’s official passport that very day which made her status illegal in the US.
The Indian embassy in Washington DC formally put in a request with the US authorities to locate Sangeeta Richard and return her to India.
In September 2013, the Delhi High Court issued an order to restrain Sangeeta Richard from instituting any action or proceedings against Khobragade outside India on the issues of her employment as had been declared in a statement issued by the Indian embassy in US. Justice Jayant Nath had ruled that any grievance regarding terms of employment, salary or ill treatment could be adjudicated only by an Indian court as she and the diplomat are both employees of the Government of India.
It is being reported that the High Court had also issued a notice to Sangeeta Richard’s husband Philip in Delhi which is scheduled for a hearing in February, 2014.
As per Indian authorities an arrest warrant was also issued against Sangeeta Richard by the Metropolitan Magistrate of a South District Court in Delhi under Sections 420, 387, 120B of the IPC.
Sources say that since Sangeeta Richard left her employment within six months of her arrival in the US there is valid cause for suspicion.
Now that the news of Sangeeta Richard’s family’s fleeing has been confirmed, it can raise many eyebrows.