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India applies to U.N. to try to solve diplomat crisis
Source: Reuters
India applies to U.N. to try to solve diplomat crisis
BY JONATHAN ALLEN AND JOSEPH AX
NEW YORK Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:36pm EST
(Reuters) - India asked the United Nations on Friday to accredit a New York-based diplomat who was arrested for visa fraud, in an apparent attempt to defuse a crisis with the United States over her treatment by U.S. authorities who strip searched her.
A U.N. spokesman said the organization had received an official request from New Delhi to accredit Devyani Khobragade as a member of India's permanent U.N. mission in what seemed to be a move to give her a stronger form of diplomatic immunity.
Khobragade's arrest has enraged India, which is demanding that all charges be dropped against her. Indian protesters ransacked a Domino's Pizza in a Mumbai suburb in anger at her detention this month for visa fraud and underpayment of her housekeeper.
She was strip searched at a U.S. District Court building in downtown Manhattan and placed in a holding cell. As India's deputy consul general in New York, she only had limited diplomatic immunity from prosecution.
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BY JONATHAN ALLEN AND JOSEPH AX
NEW YORK Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:36pm EST
(Reuters) - India asked the United Nations on Friday to accredit a New York-based diplomat who was arrested for visa fraud, in an apparent attempt to defuse a crisis with the United States over her treatment by U.S. authorities who strip searched her.
A U.N. spokesman said the organization had received an official request from New Delhi to accredit Devyani Khobragade as a member of India's permanent U.N. mission in what seemed to be a move to give her a stronger form of diplomatic immunity.
Khobragade's arrest has enraged India, which is demanding that all charges be dropped against her. Indian protesters ransacked a Domino's Pizza in a Mumbai suburb in anger at her detention this month for visa fraud and underpayment of her housekeeper.
She was strip searched at a U.S. District Court building in downtown Manhattan and placed in a holding cell. As India's deputy consul general in New York, she only had limited diplomatic immunity from prosecution.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/21/us-india-usa-idUSBRE9BJ19F20131221
