How India didn't act in the matter of Sangeeta Richard

December 20, 2013 12:51

If America "evacuated' the husband of the nanny from right under the nose of the Indian establishment, an unsuspecting New Delhi appeared to have unwittingly facilitated it by leaving the gates wide open for as long as three months, reports Imran Ahmed Siddiqui in the The Telegraph, Kolkata.

'Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who was arrested in New York, had sent a complaint against housekeeper Sangeeta Richard and her husband Philip to Delhi police on July 3 this year. Two days earlier, the same mail had been sent to the external affairs ministry, too,' he points out.

'But, for some reason, Delhi police registered the first information report only in October. The long delay suggests Indian officials reposed unquestioning faith in the Americans or did not take the complaint seriously -- suspicions that are strengthened by the fact that Philip was not arrested even two months after the FIR had been registered,' reports Siddiqui, here.

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