New Delhi: The #Ministry of #ExternalAffairs had stripped Indian diplomat #DevyaniKhobragade from her duties of director in partnership development division.
The ministry said that #Devyani #Khobragade did not take due permission before making statements and put her under “compulsory watch”.
The administrative action was taken against #Khobragade because the ministry is “miffed” with the #IFS officer for not disclosing that her children have #US passports, said sources. She is facing a #vigilance inquiry over the issue.
While talking to a news channel, Khobragade earlier said, “Some false reports have come in the newspapers that there is some illegality around my children’s passports and that I hid a fact that my children have #American passports. There is nothing of that sort, I myself informed the government that my kids were born in the #US and are considered US citizens.”
She also talked about the allegations against her of falsifying documents by judicial panel that investigated the #Adarsh #Scam.
Over the issue, she said, “My father never handled the Adarsh file, therefore he never violated any of the service rules. The CBI has now closed its inquiry and neither my name nor my father’s name figures in that report. So that rests the allegations of corruption and wrongdoing.”
A 1999 batch Indian Foreign Service officer Khobragade had been arrested and strip-searched in New York in December 2013 in the charges of ill-treating her domestic help.
The incident had strained the relations between two countries.
Bureau Report
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