On Thursday, the day that NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was arrested, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara also had 65-year-old Telugu bidda Purnachandra Reddy Aramalla arrested and charged in a multimillion-dollar healthcare drugs fraud. Aramalla’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for January 13, 2014. Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Alleged Aramalla, a resident of […]
Uttam Khobragade, 61, is mad as hell over his diplomat daughter Devyani Khobragde’s arrest by the U.S. authorities in NYC yesterday on charges of Visa fraud and making false statements in the hiring of an Indian maid. No stranger to controversy himself, the retired Indian bureaucrat, who belongs to India’s Scheduled Caste community a.k.a. Dalits, […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested Thursday morning on charges of Visa fraud and making false statements about wages to her maid, was released in the evening on a bail bond of $250,000. Devyani pleaded not guilty to the Visa fraud and making false statements charges in a NYC court. Media reports say Devyani […]
An angry and desperate Indian Embassy in Washington DC put out a statement this evening that did not respond to any of the serious charges leveled against NYC Indian Consulate’s Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragde by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara. Devyani Khobragade was arrested in New York City […]
OMG, I can smell the stench from the NYC Indian Consulate although I live 250-miles away. Every year there’s a big scandal in the U.S. media involving senior officials of the NYC Indian consulate and their maid from India. With the arrest today of NYC Indian Consulate’s Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade, the proverbial shit […]
As usual, I am pondering a big question right now. Will NYC Indian Consulate’s Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade’s arrest trigger a diplomatic row between my two favorite nations, Mera Bharat Mahaan and Amazing Amreeka? I had always thought diplomats were immune to the consequences of their actions unless they did something really, terribly macabre […]