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4. rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2013/12/more-interesting-info-on-devyani.html

more interesting info on #devyani

so there is a revenge motive too.

Which links to:



delhidurbar.in/khobragade-arrest-due-to-escalation-gone-awry/

Khobragade arrest due to escalation gone awry

December 19, 2013



The US media has called the Indian reaction to diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s arrest and strip search, “revenge”.



But sources in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) say, if anything, it was the US government who wrought revenge on Indian diplomat for a perceived insult meted out to one of their own by New Delhi some months back, looking at an opportunity to get back.



In 2010, Neena Malhotra, a consul at the Indian consulate in New York was accused by her domestic help Shanti Gurung of “slavery”. A New York court in 2012 decided in Gurung’s favour. It directed Malhotra and her husband to award $1.5 million for “barbaric treatment” they meted out to Gurung. Malhotra and her husband didn’t attend hearings, having returned to India before Gurung filed her suit. The court ordered damages be recovered from the Malhotras, which would have meant any assets they might have in the US to have been seized. Malhotra appealed against the verdict but didn’t travel to the US.



In New Delhi, Malhotra occupied important postings. She was, until recently, joint secretary in the visa division. Here, in November, 2013, Malhotra refused a visa to the spouse of a gay US diplomat when she discovered that the couple were homosexual. She said Indian law didn’t recognise gay marriages.



Sources say this hurt the Americans as the Indian diplomat threw the rule book at them. Given South Block’s relations with the US, the US Embassy ensured that Malhotra was transferred out soon enough and the gay couple granted visa. There was a feeling that Malhotra may have been unfairly insistent that the American diplomat follow the rule book, when the spouse could have been granted a visa as a family member if not as spouse.



A source said Malhotra may have only been doing to the Americans what they did to her over the maid issue.



However, Malhotra was shifted to managing archives and records, clearly a punishment posting.



But the Americans were not satisfied. In New Delhi, IFS officers were upset that one phone call from Roosevelt House ensured the diplomat was moved out, in what was clearly a very public message to the entire diplomatic corps that the Americans should not be treated lightly. This, when the diplomat was only following laid down rules.



Further, as Khobragade’s father Uttam Khobragade told news media, the in-laws of his daughter’s domestic help, Sangeeta Rcihard, work for the US Embassy. The embassy ensured that Richards’s husband and two children were able to leave India for the US, two days before Khobragade was arrested.



There will likely be many questions asked about the reasons for this special treatment to Richards by the US and ‘standard’ treatment to Khobragade, over alleged visa fraud over wages.



Sources said Khobragade’s case had brewed since March. The US government had alerted the Indians in September about the case but didn’t take any further action. The Indian embassy also failed to take the warning seriously because it had become routine to ignore discrepancies in wages between diplomats and personal staff brought with them on contract. [color="#0000FF"]And although Khobragade, herself, doesn’t make the minimum wage in the US, she remains out of the ambit and protection of US law as she is an employee of the Indian government.[/color]



Sources said the Americans have become used red carpet treatment in the last decade, particularly during the Manmohan Singh years. Malhotra’s refusal to grant visa was an insult for which the Americans wanted to pay back the Indians. This is where they extracted revenge on Khobragade – treated her like a common criminal, arrested her in front of her daughter and strip and cavity searched her.



Sources said the Manmohan Singh government would ordinarily have buckled under, as in the past, when it comes to the US, but the IFS top brass felt humiliated, as this came within weeks of Roosevelt House ensuring Malhotra’s transfer.



Other factors that contributed to this situation included the prominence of the Khobragade family in Maharashtra. Her father was a top bureaucrat and active in the dalit politics of the state. Ignoring the Khobragade case could have backfired on the Congress in election season. The party could have been placed in a difficult position in a state where it still enjoys sizable support among dalits.



The issue could likely move towards resolution with the US Secretary of State John Kerry expressing his “regret” to NSA Shivshankar Menon. But with the belligerent statement of US Attorney Preet Bharara after Kerry’s phone call relations appear unlikely to improve anytime soon.



External affairs minister Salman Khurshid claimed that Khobragade has entrapped in a “conspiracy”. India’s ambassador to South Korea Vishnu Prakash tweeted that “USA treated Devyani like a Taliban member in Guantanamo. Arrested & handcuffed her before her daughter in front of school gate”.



Former Ambassador to the US Ronen Sen has said that he had advocated for India to withdraw all non-reciprocal privileges that the Americans received in India, several years back. Former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal said there were many other such wage dispute cases involving US politicians, without them facing the treatment given to Khobragade.



India has transferred Devyani to its UN mission in New York. This gives her immunity from the US law.



A war of words also broke out within the IFS fraternity, with former secretary K.C. Singh openly accusing former foreign secretary and outgoing ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, of leaving India-US relations in shambles while herself having found a post-retirement sinecure.

Maybe that's why the new chapter in legislation concerning homosexuality suddenly appeared in India? Maybe the Indian christogovt - offended at the snub in return for a snub in return for a snub - is preparing for another snub back. Certainly would be one explanation for the mystery that San found to exist:

rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2013/12/supreme-court-queers-pitch.html

Supreme Court Queers the Pitch

[color="#0000FF"]There are some strange things about this Supreme Court decision on Section 377. One of them is that Supreme Court Justice Singhvi retired after announcing the decision.[/color] Another is that the court's verdict claims that its decision was based on a respect for the jurisdiction of parliament, which the court claimed should be the one to repeal the law, rather than relying upon the Delhi Court to have struck it down.



When the govt itself through the Attorney General was representing the decriminalization side of the debate, then why would the Supreme Court feel concern that the Delhi High Court was in danger of being in conflict with the parliament? That makes no sense. If anything, the Supreme Court of India has been extremely activist in confronting the parliament, relative to other courts around the world. So how did the court come up with its reasoning?



timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/A-queer-judgment/articleshow/27227195.cms



[color="#0000FF"]Anytime justices retire immediately after rendering a politically sensitive decision, I feel suspicious about it.[/color]

Perhaps it's to easily criminalise gay US officials busy - prancing about all-superior and elite for being the priviliged Amerikkkan - on Indian soil, while their own govt regularly metes out high-handed treatment to Indian officials posted in the US? A Rajeev2004 blog entry reposted Radha Rajan threatening that some lesbian US official should be treated similar to Devyani for transgressing the sudden change in Indian legislation against homosexuality: US official's lesbianism makers her a criminal overnight, so she can be shipped of unceremoniously too.



Don't know why Indians care so much. So the US snubs you. Who cares for the opinion of the nation of genocidal maniacs that murdered out practically all of the native Americans and then continue to illegally occupy the natives' land. Really, looking for respect from a criminal nation is a bad marker of self-esteem.

One does respect how China for how it exasperates the US so easily, so effortlessly and so regularly - AmeriKKKans look quite constipated in how they're unable to do anything about it and unable to get the respect they demand from China.





5. Also linked from the Rajeev2004 blog

indianexpress.com/news/sangeeta-always-wanted-to-work-abroad-motherinlaw/1209409/

Sangeeta always wanted to work abroad: Mother-in-Law

Ananya Bhardwaj : New Delhi, Thu Dec 19 2013, 03:38 hrs



Sangeeta Richard, whose complaint triggered the events leading to diplomat Devyani Khobragade's arrest, was always keen to work abroad, according to her mother-in-law. "She always wanted to work abroad. She knew I was working at a diplomat's house and wanted me to look for a similar job for her," said Agnes, mother of Sangeeta's husband Philip Richard.



Sangeeta, 42, who hails from Kerala, married Philip 20 years ago after three years of courtship, then apparently left his house three days later because he was not earning enough. "I had reservations about the marriage but my son was in a hurry. She was staying in Ghaziabad with her father and had no job then," Agnes said.

"Sangeeta left the house on the third day as she was not happy with his financial condition. When she realised she was pregnant, she came back and delivered a daughter in my house. She and my son moved to Fatehpur Beri soon after," she said.



The Indian Express found the Fatehpur Beri house locked. Philip has left for the US.



Radha, a close friend of Sangeeta, claimed it was she who had referred Sangeeta to Devyani Khobragade (whose father has named another referrer). Radha is working with a diplomat in the Canada High Commission.

[color="#800080"](Hindus having christist friends are always a source of problems for Hindu society. Thanks "Radha"!)[/color]



"Devyani ma'am [color="#800080"](oh, good grief. Ma'am? Still living in the colonial era?)[/color] had offered me the job but I had to turn it down as my husband had passed away and there was no one to take care of my children. I suggested Sangeeta's name," said Radha. "A few days ago, I asked Philip about Sangeeta as I was very worried. Philip told me she is in the US and fine. He told me he would go there soon."

[color="#800080"](Ooh, so he was in the know that he was going to get magically evacuated by his/his wife's alien paymasters.)[/color]

But oh, poor mercenary christist. So obviously mercenary in every respect. And so put upon! Paid less than American minimum wage standards by her employer (Devyani) who earns less than her (and also under American min wage standards). hock: Classic case of "slavery"! But Amerikkka knows all about slavery and especially about hypocritically lecturing others about what constitutes slavery.





Oh and wow did she get pregnant fast. Sure it's possible to get pregnant even on the first day of the honeymoon, but still: 3 years of courtship - wow, 3 years? - and pregnant after the 3rd day of marriage. Now, has she been doing anything unchristian - as in premarital intimate relations, forbidden (with threats of hellfire) by her dear church/gawd? It's practically banned in faithful christo-state Mizoram, ya know? Lucky for the christist that Kerala is still not converted to christoislamicommunism, and still has some vestiges of secular/Hindu law.

Besides, her husband was in a "hurry to get married" - and make it all seem less sinful to the church's busy-body judgemental eyes, perhaps?



India's christian women aiming to rope in men often aim to get pregnant so as to force the situation. Although the pattern seen is familiar/SOP, S Richard's choice is unusual: her goalpost was a christist man whom she had been working on (for 3 yrs apparently) to persuade him to marry her (and managed to get him to "hurry into it" at the end of that period), since she thought he was affluent - before he then finally set her straight on his actual monetary worth/prospects after the wedding. Poor mercenary. What a horrific victim of her 3-year-boyfriend/husband's deceit. Couldn't he have told her he wasn't as rich as she wanted him to have been *before* she spent all that time and effort trying to get him to marry her at last?



Unlike Richard's choice of target, usually India's christist women are instructed to use "any means necessary" to rope in "pagan" men. Tragically for christist ends, Hindu men - like the old Hellenistic Romans and the pre-christianised Vikingen shocked at the laxity of christianised Rome, not to mention the highly-chaste/easily-offended Chinese heathens - tend to still have old-fashioned ideas about chastity and stuff and therefore often balk at being involved in pre-marital relations, not usually being quite ready for that degree of progressiveness. (Younger generations are more often secular and not pagan and so it's easier for the church's sheep to 'persuade' them to get married into christianism.) Note I'm not judging heathens/heathen men for their continued aloofness and for not getting with the times already, nor am I judging Richards or any christian woman ready to do whatever it takes to achieve her ends - I mean, if you're mercenary by nature, might as well not pretend otherwise which will only force you to cut corners and end up disappointed as S Richards did - but one observes that the combination of "pagan men" and desperate christian women is a disaster from the start.