A furious Ministry of External
Affairs has stripped Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade of her duties as a
Director in the Development Partnership Division of the MEA. She has been
placed under a "compulsory wait". Sources say that the ministry was
unhappy because of an interview that she gave to news channel that is not on
good terms with the BJP government.
She was in news around a year ago
when she was arrested and strip-searched in the US on charges of making false
statements on a visa application for her housekeeper.
Khobragade, a 1999 batch IFS
candidate and a mother of two, said in the interview, "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."
When a question was asked about falsifying
documents in the Adarsh housing scam she 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, for now, has
returned back to India.
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