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1. niticentral.com/2013/12/19/diplomat-arrest-case-maids-letter-reveals-devyanis-innocence-170417.html

Diplomat arrest case: Maid’s letter reveals Devyani’s innocence



Niticentral Staff

19 Dec 2013



Indian diplomat Devyani’s sister has released a letter in which maid Sangeeta Richards writes that the diplomat’s family was very nice to her. It also says that the diplomat treated Sangeeta very well and even gave her an iPad.

Khobragade, 39, the Deputy Consul General at the Indian Consulate in New York, was arrested last week and has been accused of visa fraud and for making false statements about the salary and employment terms of Sangeeta Richard, the domestic help she had got from India.

The American conspiracy behind Devyani Khobragade’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.

2. niticentral.com/2013/12/19/more-to-devyani-khobragade-controversy-than-meets-the-eye-170273.html

via rajeev2004.blogspot.com

Devyani Khobragade row: More to it than meets the eye



Sandhya Jain19 Dec 2013



Devyani Khobragade, the diplomat who was publicly handcuffed, arrested and subjected to indecent body searches and locked up with lumpen drug addicts and other convicts prior to receiving bail last week, could have inadvertently compromised Indian security by harbouring a mole in her domestic establishment. A top strategic expert, who wished to remain unnamed, says it is important that India understand how Khobragade engaged Sangeeta Richards, the nanny-cum-housekeeper behind the trouble, and took her to America.



That there is a larger conspiracy behind the episode is evident from the fact that on December 10, two days before the diplomat’s arrest (December 12), Sangeeta Richards’s husband, Philip, and two children quietly flew to America by an Air India flight. Somebody in Washington had helped them procure visas, a highly unusual development, since the Indian Government had revoked Sangeeta Richards’s official passport in July and asked for her to be deported to India. Usually such a dramatic evacuation is done only to protect US spies; hence it is important to investigate the Richard family, its associations, and bank accounts.



The Richard family seems well networked with the diplomatic community. Sangeeta’s father-in-law reportedly works in the American embassy in Delhi; her mother-in-law is said to have worked for a senior US diplomat; her husband, Philip, was a driver with the Mozambique embassy. Philip was granted a T-visa, which allows victims of human trafficking and immediate family members to remain and work temporarily in the United States if they agree to assist law enforcement in testifying against the perpetrators. This suggests a larger conspiracy.



Sangeeta Richard arrived in the US in November 2012 to work as a domestic help for India’s deputy consul general in New York. She allegedly wanted to do extra work outside on her off days, but was told it was illegal under her visa status and because she had an official passport. But on June 23, she simply walked out, and two weeks later turned up at an immigration attorney’s firm in Manhattan, New York, alleging that she was overworked and underpaid. She had clearly rustled up some powerful support, or was known to the US authorities all along, given the employment profile of her marital family.



The MEA has since revealed that on July 1, Devyani Khobragade received a telephone call from an unidentified woman who said Richards would not go to court if her employment was terminated and she was paid for 19 hours of work per day. On July 2, the diplomat informed the Office of Foreign Missions and the New York Police Department about the call, in writing. But on July 8, she was called by the immigration lawyer’s office and asked to pay $10,000, convert Sangeeta Richards’s passport into an ordinary one and help her get a visa to stay on in America.



Alarmed at this development, the Indian Government revoked Richards’s official passport, which made her status illegal in the US, and asked the State Department to locate and send her back to India. The request was repeated in September; the same month, the Delhi High Court issued an interim injunction restraining Richards from instituting any action or proceeding against Khobragade outside India regarding her employment and to settle all disputes in India as both women worked for the Government of India. The Indian mission informed the US authorities that as the maid was seeking a US visa, she was violating laws in both countries. On November 21, the Saket district court issued a non-bailable warrant for Sangeeta Richards, and India asked the US to help serve the warrant and repatriate the maid.



The MEA clearly erred in not issuing an immigration alert for Richards’s husband and children once the State Department proved so uncooperative, and since Philip Richards initially filed a missing persons report about his wife but later withdrew it. The authorities took six days after Khobragade’s arrest to realise that the family had flown the coop.



With hindsight, it seems that Richards’s walkout was part of a plan in concert with American authorities; the luckless Indian diplomat seems collateral damage. New Delhi must figure out the US game plan and enlighten the nation. Sangeeta Richards has received US hospitality for six months and now her family has surreptitiously been taken to settle in America. This makes a mockery of the US claim that Khobragade was arrested because she was not paying her staff according to the hourly minimum wage in America.



The Sangeeta Richards episode brings to mind the 2004 affair of Army Major and CIA mole, Rabinder Singh, who was serving as a joint secretary in the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), when he escaped to the United States with his wife after causing untold damage to India’s national interests and security. Former R&AW special secretary and head of the counter-intelligence unit, Amar Bhushan, uncovered the scandal in his book, Escape to Nowhere. It seems Indian intelligence was aware of Singh’s betrayal and was monitoring him closely for three months when he suspected that he had been unmasked and escaped via Kathmandu with the help of the CIA station chief there.



The lesson which India never learnt is that the US compulsorily retired the Kathmandu station head to punish him for failing to evacuate Singh covertly and exposing CIA’s hand in the episode. But in India, the 57 employees of R&AW who regularly shared information with Singh remained in the organisation; 26 were not even asked for an explanation and 31 who had shared operational details with him were posted abroad.



After Dr Manmohan Singh became Prime Minister, the CIA tried to infiltrate the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), which is part of the Prime Minister’s Office. Some NSCS staffers were suspected of having clandestine links with an unnamed lady CIA officer posted as a diplomat in the US embassy in Delhi. Her task was to liaise with concerned Government departments in connection with the Indo-US Cyber Security Forum set up when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was Prime Minister. She reportedly used this opportunity to allegedly recruit moles in the NSCS, which coordinates the work of the Indo-US Cyber Security Forum.



Previously also, the Indian intelligence community has been suborned by the CIA at middle and senior levels. Just eight months after Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1984, India’s biggest and most serious spy scandal broke, resulting in the arrest of 15 officials, including TN Kher, personal assistant to Principal Secretary PC Alexander. The scandal involved thousands of top secret documents and code books being photocopied and faxed from the PMO itself. Alexander resigned on ‘moral grounds’.



Then, the head of the R&AW office in Chennai, an IPS officer in the rank of director, was found to have clandestine contacts with a CIA officer posted in the US consulate there. Tipped off by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), R&AW immediately detained and interrogated him for one year at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, but he was not prosecuted.



In the 1990s, when PV Narasimha Rao was Prime Minister, a very senior IPS officer serving in the IB was suspected to be working for Heidi August, a CIA officer posted as a diplomat at the US embassy in Delhi. He was exposed when a junior IB officer accidentally discovered that Heidi August had a mobile phone registered in the senior officer’s name. The officer was sent on premature retirement after the IB and R&AW confirmed his treason.



This brings us back to Devyani Khobragade, who has been unjustly accused of underpaying an employee who is possibly an ‘asset’ of a foreign agency. The Indian Government, which failed to retaliate when former President APJ Abdul Kalam was double frisked at an American airport, former Defence Minister George Fernandes was strip searched, and attempts were made to humiliate diplomat Hardeep Puri, must ensure that Washington release the diplomat unconditionally and with full apology, and explain its inexplicable interest in the Richards family.



The initial Indian reaction to the arrest – snub to a visiting Congress delegation; revocation of diplomatic IDs to US consul staff and their families; withdrawal of airport passes and import clearances; removal of security barricades around the American Embassy on Shanti Path; and demand for information about wages paid to Indians employed by the US mission and by individual diplomats in India – is inadequate given the enormity of the provocation.



The Government of India, backed as it is by the entire nation, must respond in a more muscular fashion, commensurate to the offence in which the US Government has knowingly helped Sangeeta Richards commit an immigration fraud and evade Indian justice. In these circumstances, Secretary of State John Kerry’s telephonic apology to National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon is a meaningless diplomatic nicety since the US is standing by the arrest. Worse, the US marshal service seems to have flouted its own rules by subjecting the diplomat to intrusive strip and cavity searches, when these can be done only if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person arrested is carrying contraband or weapons, is a repeat offender or is considered a security, escape or suicide risk. None of these conditions apply to Devyani Khobragade.

And the interesting comments:

Sri Aiyer Raju Sreenivasan

Rabinder Singh, an Indian traitor working for CIA, was the one who immediately came to my mind reading news related to this episode. By now he must be a drug addict existing on American doles after blowing away his ill-gotten wealth as a renegade, and he must be a pimp on American streets for his own family members. Well.



But a Nanny in a diplomat's household, it never occurred to me as to what kind of an intelligence asset she can be for a third country. Therefore I dismissed this espionage angle from my mind and thought on different angles. Now I realize it is a very serious matter, and it is better dealt with by people in the business. I should have known better after witnessing what a baby sitting au pair (nanny) has done to my own country!





svpban

very good article. The so called electronic media experts, who had traced nitin gadkari's firms, should do investigation on the background of sangeeta and her family and expose the americans. mere shouting and discussing will not do any good to the diplomat. The steps taken by the MEA to the american embassy and its occupants is a welcome, except the removing of barricades. This may result in security lapse , which is not in the interest of our country.

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gagan

This is how the CIA protects its operatives and plants. There's many many such in Delhi esp. Glad this has blown open. The deliberate disinformation in the western media and US slant that Indians must lump it is totally unacceptable



Tilak

Judging by modus operandi revealed, it is almost certain that the Richards family had some sort of intelligence role and nanny herself may have been one of their operatives as well. Do note European and the US embassies rarely employ non Christian local employees, except for Gurkhas in the British embassy, used as their historic cannon fodder.

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Guest

It will be interesting if background of Preet Bharara can be researched? Did he by any chance grow up in a Khalistan supporting family? Even today there are many rabid anti-India, Khalistan families in North America. I wouldn't be surprised this guy grew up in a rabid anti_india environment. The US having done its due diligence will know this, and accordingly how to use him and how much to trust him.

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Something rousing about India-AmeriKKKa bhai-bhai - a song perhaps - would be perfect just about now.



3. niticentral.com/2013/12/19/devyani-case-third-instance-of-maids-accusing-indian-diplomats-170414.html

Devyani case third instance of maids accusing Indian diplomats



Yoshita Singh

19 Dec 2013



[Pic of Devayanai]



The case of Devyani Khobragade, a top Indian diplomat accused of fraud by her domestic help, is the third instance where maids working for diplomats at the Indian Consulate General in New York have complained against their employers.



Khobragade, 39, the deputy consul general at the Indian Consulate in New York, was arrested last week and has been accused of visa fraud and for making false statements about the salary and employment terms of Sangeeta Richard, the domestic help she had got from India.



Khobragade’s arrest and the charges against her have triggered a major diplomatic row between India and the US with New Delhi sternly asserting that Khobragade enjoys diplomatic immunity and expressing shock at the “barbaric” treatment meted out to her while she was detained.



However, Khobragade’s case is not an isolated one and top diplomats serving at the Indian Consulate General in the city were accused of harassment and slavery by their maids.



The most recent case is that of India’s previous Consul General Ambassador Prabhu Dayal, who was slapped with sexual harassment accusation in 2011 by his maid Santosh Bhardwaj.



Dayal had rubbished the charges levelled against him saying they were “complete nonsense. These are mischievous and malicious lies.”



Bhardwaj, 45 had filed a forced labour-suit against Dayal accusing him of treating her as a slave and making sexual advances.



However, Bhardwaj had later dropped charges of sexual harassment and that she had to sleep on “a mattress on the floor in a small storage room” against the Indian envoy in an ‘amended complaint.



Earlier in July 2010, a complaint was filed in a federal court by Shanti Gurung who accused diplomat Neena Malhotra and her husband Jogesh of kidnapping, trafficking her and ill-treatment.



Gurung accused the Malhotras of harassment and “slavery”.



A US Magistrate Judge had later recommended that Gurung be awarded $ 1.5 million in compensation by Malhotras.



However the Delhi High Court had restrained Gurung from pursuing her lawsuit in the US.



The Delhi court had also accepted the argument that Neena is a diplomat in the services of the Government of India and was sent in official capacity to the US and thus enjoys Sovereign immunity.



(PTI)

Hmmm, a pattern emerges. "Curiouser and curiouser."





4. firstpost.com/world/diplomatic-row-i-broke-down-several-times-says-devyani-khobragade-1294793.html



One of the comments:

AR

• a day ago− +

It appears that there is more than what meets the eye. Far too many things coming out. Have come across some theories making rounds online so far:



1. MSM is being used to whip up sentiments and outrage, as usual, and

when the emotion has reached a peak, it will be used by Sonia G to

justify a 'no response' to US issued summon on 1984 riots.[when the

diplomat is immune, how can UPA chairperson be expected to response to

summons]



2. The US govt. did it purposely using Christian lobby and the sepoy

Preet. Preet gets his pat on the back for being a good coolie and India

gets harrassed.



3. [Already mentioned by someone here] This is a reaction to

cancellation of Visa for a new staff in US embassy in India as he was

gay.

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4. It is a smokescreen to keep attention away from coalgate, 2G proceedings.

[color="#800080"](But that just underlines how it's the US that's the brains behind how the Indian christogovt and christomedia keeps covering up all the important news on the country by launching one drama after another to divert the public, as Rajeev and others (like Sealion at HK) had noted.)[/color]



PS: Oh and BTW, I thought till 2 days ago, sec377 was the biggest issue, but that's an old story now I suppose..? Something very fishy is going on.

This in the above is obviously wrong:

3. [Already mentioned by someone here] This is a reaction to

cancellation of Visa for a new staff in US embassy in India as he was

gay.

Nonsense. US controls all of Indian internal policy these days: Indian govt, christomedia, judiciary and - as Sandhya Jain documented in the 2nd news item of this post - US also has deep infiltrators in Indian 'intelligence'. US govt is what's behind - [url=http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2530-jan-lokpal-movement/page__view__findpost__p__116751

]as per "amAtya rAkShasa"'s post in the Jan Lokpal thread[/url] - propping up the AAP party/figureheads: "Hazare, who will leave for the US on 15 August, said he will be visiting Columbia University, Wharton University, New York, Washington, South Carolina, Atlanta, Chicago, Petersburgh and attend a meeting with the governor of Delaware during the course of the trip."



Clearly US saw that their puppets the Congress weren't looking to do well in the coming elections/US wanted some security as regards what political power replaces Congress in India, and so hijacked the Yogi Ramdev's anti-corruption movement, using puppets like Hazare etc. US organised the hijacking - just as they've subsequently organised Hazare's tour to advertise their approval for their puppet Anna and his gang/party to all the US and international western audience - just underscores it all the more.



It's also why the AAP is the new thing the US is propping up with full mobilisation of its powers in India (christomedia et al): rajeev2004 blog's RajeevS/Karyakarta/San already observed that the Indian christomedia puppets of the US had all-of-a-sudden unanimously dropped trumpeting the KKKongress and its crown prince, and moved onto heralding the AAP as the ones the Indian masses must vote for instead - "anything except the BJP" since it doesn't align to foreign interests as readily as all the others already in US/alien pay. Consider that for years the US had declared/advertised to international audiences that Rahul was/should be India's crown prince), which US' Indian mouthpiece the local christomedia had followed suit. Now it's dump the sinking ship that is KKKongress and Rahul and launch a new boat, the AAP.

And the fact that the US magically organised invitations to all kinds of "prestigious" universities for Hazare to drop by - which sounds of an identical pattern to all the foreign awards, "chairs" and other appointments doled out to the mentally regressive Indian communits and christos working for US interests in India - would just be to publicly crown (i.e. privately start propping up) of the new chosen (puppet) Indian party that the US wants to succeed the KKKangress in India and make the stupid secular/mind-numbed Indian classes vote for.



Every other major country that is/was not yet aligned with US interests/imperatives has had colour revolutions and Arab springs foisted on them, courtesy AmeriKKKa and its long reach. Why is it so hard for Indian masses to notice the same happening in the Indian case?

Even if KKKangress drowns itself at last, the US has brought together the christoislamicommunits votebank in the AAP to be the successor, to thereby continue the foreign-controlled ideological terrorism of the Hindu natives and exploit the country and keep it 3rd world (all while converting it first to christianism and then to islam - which will keep the region that's at present still known as a country/India 3rd world forever).



I wonder how the US army base in Tiruvanantapuram is coming along. CIA generally uses missionaries to convert the masses of regions so the sheep will

- immediately fall in line with US policy for the region (and christist sheep always have a 3rd world mentality and do as their 1st world masters bid)

- as well as serving as an Indian army loyal to foreign interests, one that can be easily hijacked and incited on any issues the US wants to "raise" to drown out more important matters or to create local riots etc (the way the christocolonial Brits organised christists in Kerala and set up the "Justice Party" in TN to riot against on demand, whenever the native Hindus tried to oust christoBritish control).

Perhaps the US army base is already 4 storeys tall - a la the islamic madrassas AP's christogovt had greenlighted in Tirupati and which also went unreported in christomedia.

Maybe the US army base that's setting up shop will get the significantly-christoised Tiruvanantapuram to carve itself and declare itself an independent christian state, the way christians alien and local got Mizoram to do so?