Saturday, December 14, 2013

Top Indian diplomat arrested in New York after 'paying housekeeper $3.31 an hour and lying to get her into the country'

A top Indian diplomat has been arrested in New York after she paid her house-keeper only $3.13 an hour and lied to get her into the country, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade, 39, has publicly campaigned for women's rights and gender equality.

But the woman she hired to clean her house and look after he two young daughters says Khobragade paid her less than $600 a month - $3.31 an hour - despite telling U.S. immigration officials the staffer would be paid $4,500 a month.

Khobragade's lawyer on Thursday said that his client enjoys diplomatic immunity and said he would moved to have the charges dismissed on those grounds.

But U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Preet Bharara was adamant.

'Foreign nationals brought to the United States to serve as domestic workers are entitled to the same protectio ns against exploitation as those afforded to United States citizens,' he told the New York Daily News. Full story...

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