Indian Diplomat Accused of Fraud and Arrested in U.S

The India’s senior U.S diplomat has been arrested in New York accused of visa fraud and exploiting her babysitter and housekeeper.

According to information; Devyani Khobragade, 39, India’s Deputy Consul General to the US, was charged on Thursday with one enumerate of visa fraud and one enumerate of making false declarations, which convey maximum judgments of ten years and five years in jail, respectively.

Khobragade, who looks after political, financial, financial and women’s activities at the consulate, pleaded not at fault to the allegations levied by Indian-born US advocate Preet Bharara at Manhattan government Court and was issued on a $250,000 bail.

The Indian Embassy in Washington answered swiftly and expressed its “strong anxiety to the US Government over the activity taken against Khobragade.” It furthermore urged the US “to determination the issue with due sensitivity,” taking into account a pending court case in India and the diplomatic rank of Khobragade.

U.S. Department of State in 2012, according to the court documents to get visas for the employees, who said the document offered in agreement with U.S. law, the $ 9.75 hourly salary would be. The documents khubragry another affirmation with a household worker in a monthly earnings of five thousand rupees twenty five thousand rupees and kept auurtam .

Visa submission per U.S. dollar allowance per hour arrives to $ 3.31. U.S. Department of State according to the article, the worker inquired khubragry visa to $ 9.75 per hour during the interview notifies her income.

The Indian Embassy said activity was evidently taken against Khobragade on the cornerstone of allegations raised by the officer’s former India-based domestic aide, Sangeeta Richard, who absconded in June and has not been glimpsed since.

Indian Diplomat Accused of Fraud and Arrested in U.S