Is Preet Bharara an idiot or is there something not yet in the public domain regarding the charges against Khobragade?
The so called law that Preet is trying to uphold is followed more in its breach - minimum wages to an indian maid in an indian diplomats house - and that too an indian maid on an indian diplomatic passport.
It is a well established principle of law that standard of living is crucial in fixing the quantum of financial punishment. For eg. the alimony that tiger woods pays is way more than the alimony that an average jobless joe in the US pays.
By that very standard sangeetha was on velvet with limited work and a salary of 30k sent to her family in India. I am sure there will be millions of people (even people with degrees) willing to work for that pay.
So unless there is something other than what is already there in the public domain I fail to see how Preet hopes to get a conviction.
The other Questions on which the GOI/ Khobragade can file a harassment suit/ illegal detention / defamation suit are:
1. There was a missing person report against Sangeetha - inspite of that the NYC police did not inform that they were in touch with the maid
2. there was a criminal case against the husband - in spite of that the US gave him a Visa - interesting to see what he filled up in his application form in the column for "any criminal case..."
3. The very point that the maids family was "evacuated" for atrocities done on them by the Indian state smacks of a conspiracy as the interview of the diplomats father is there for all to see - he kept calling the DCP to follow up against the maids husband and to impound his passport - who did nothing - when a police officer in charge of the case in not even following up - where is the question of "atrocities" against the maids family.
There are just too many question and also precedent wherein the US state dept had allowed russian diplomats to leave inspite of committing fraud, bullldozed Pakistan to accord diplomatic immunity to a private American contractor etc etc - WHY this doggedness to continue to carry on a losing cause? Is the Ego of an individual Idiot who has been HAD by a sob story of a maid far greater in the US establishment than normalising relations with the worlds largest democracy.
Something is just not Kosher here.
The so called law that Preet is trying to uphold is followed more in its breach - minimum wages to an indian maid in an indian diplomats house - and that too an indian maid on an indian diplomatic passport.
It is a well established principle of law that standard of living is crucial in fixing the quantum of financial punishment. For eg. the alimony that tiger woods pays is way more than the alimony that an average jobless joe in the US pays.
By that very standard sangeetha was on velvet with limited work and a salary of 30k sent to her family in India. I am sure there will be millions of people (even people with degrees) willing to work for that pay.
So unless there is something other than what is already there in the public domain I fail to see how Preet hopes to get a conviction.
The other Questions on which the GOI/ Khobragade can file a harassment suit/ illegal detention / defamation suit are:
1. There was a missing person report against Sangeetha - inspite of that the NYC police did not inform that they were in touch with the maid
2. there was a criminal case against the husband - in spite of that the US gave him a Visa - interesting to see what he filled up in his application form in the column for "any criminal case..."
3. The very point that the maids family was "evacuated" for atrocities done on them by the Indian state smacks of a conspiracy as the interview of the diplomats father is there for all to see - he kept calling the DCP to follow up against the maids husband and to impound his passport - who did nothing - when a police officer in charge of the case in not even following up - where is the question of "atrocities" against the maids family.
There are just too many question and also precedent wherein the US state dept had allowed russian diplomats to leave inspite of committing fraud, bullldozed Pakistan to accord diplomatic immunity to a private American contractor etc etc - WHY this doggedness to continue to carry on a losing cause? Is the Ego of an individual Idiot who has been HAD by a sob story of a maid far greater in the US establishment than normalising relations with the worlds largest democracy.
Something is just not Kosher here.
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