Saturday, 20 December 2014

Ministry Of External Affairs Relives Devyani Khobragade Of Her Duties, Places Her Under "Compusary Wait"

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.   

Ministry Of External Affairs Relives Devyani Khobragade Of Her Duties

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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