Several years into my tenure, in , the State Department arrested a mid-level female Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade , for visa fraud in connection with lies about what she would pay her domestic worker. It was not the crime of the century but a serious offense nonetheless and a burgeoning problem among the diplomatic corps in the United States. Khobragade was afforded a number of courtesies during the course of her arrest, because of her diplomatic status, but she was strip-searched per regular procedure by the U. That could have and should have been avoided, given that no one would have sought pretrial detention. Attorney and I happened to be Indian-born, an avalanche of vitriol and bile came my way.
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Several years into my tenure, in , the State Department arrested a mid-level female Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade , for visa fraud in connection with lies about what she would pay her domestic worker. It was not the crime of the century but a serious offense nonetheless and a burgeoning problem among the diplomatic corps in the United States. Khobragade was afforded a number of courtesies during the course of her arrest, because of her diplomatic status, but she was strip-searched per regular procedure by the U.
That could have and should have been avoided, given that no one would have sought pretrial detention. Attorney and I happened to be Indian-born, an avalanche of vitriol and bile came my way. The arrest caused an international incident.
It was an election year in India, and the ruling Congress Party was in danger of an electoral bloodbath loss to the Indian nationalist BJP.
The BJP, the party of the future prime minister Narendra Modi , shrewdly seized upon this supposed Western insult to Indian sovereignty and caused a crisis for the Congress Party. But the drama was joined. The then secretary of state, John Kerry, was pressured to make the case go away. The Indians threatened retaliation against our embassy in New Delhi and suggested taking privileges away from American diplomats.
At one point, as the Indian government raged, our largest democratic ally in the world—in its most hostile action—removed security barriers from the outside of the U.
I am proud of the case and how we upheld the rule of law. I defended our work, loudly. Because I was the U. Never mind that the case was initiated and investigated by career law enforcement officials, and I personally became aware of it only the day before the arrest.
The Indian government and press decided that the case was brought by me—an Indian American—for all manner of nefarious reasons. Talk show hosts in India took to calling me a self-loathing Indian who made it a point to go after people from the country of his birth.
My colleagues and I found all of it a bit odd, because the alleged victim in the case was also Indian. The criticism grew more and more intense, which might not have bothered me so much had my parents not been reading every word of it. It upset them greatly. Then came the evening when my daughter overheard a conversation in the living room.
That was not pleasant. As the accusations grew more and more absurd, they became downright comical. These were, presumably, Eric Holder and Barack Obama. India edition. Follow us. Preet Bharara. Suggest a correction.
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One week later, Khobragade was transferred by the government of India to the UN mission in New York, subject to clearance from the United States Department of State , which would entitle her to full diplomatic immunity. On January 8, , the U. India denied that request. We then requested her departure, as per the standard procedure and the charges remain in place. On March 12, , Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered that all charges against Khobragade be dismissed because she had diplomatic immunity at the time of her indictment on visa fraud charges due to her posting to the United Nations prior to the indictment. She joined Indian Foreign Service in
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