chaanakya wrote:eklavya wrote:I'm not sure its easy to conclude that the USMS officer is lying and the IFS officer is not lying. The IFS officer allegedly lied on her application form for an Adarsh apartment, the IFS officer allegedly lied on the visa form for her maid, and the IFS officer may have told lies about being subject to a cavity search. Maybe the IFS officer is a victim of a terrible conspiracy, but maybe, just maybe, the IFS officer tells an awful lot of lies (not in the line of duty). Let the courts decide.
1. On Adarsh, She did not lie. She informed that she is going to sell the flat in Oshiwara and from that proceed she would buy Adarsh which she eventually did. Adarsh Report did not find any evidence of her father dealing with Adarsh files in any manner unlike many other beneficiaries. The Commission merely listed her as not being eligible because she had a flat in Oshiwara. I don't think she was connected to Adarsh Scam in any way. Read Adarsh Report. Commission overlooked that submission.
2. She did not file Visa application SR did. And now, it has emerged that no wrong information was given but Mark Smith , Agent for DSS, USD misread Visa information. SO that charge is wrong and unwarranted.
Anyway Adarsh has nothing to do with the case. We are always talking about the Diplomat and not the individual.
In fact nowhere it is established that she lied.
The only reason Adarsh is important is to understand if the IFS officer is a habitual liar, or not, as the case may be. If the officer has lied about being subject to a cavity search by the USMS, that too is a serious matter. As for the maid's visa, let the courts decide.
The purpose of diplomatic immunity is to get our spies out of tricky situations, not to facilitate potential misrepresentation on US visa forms and potential maid abuse without fear of consequences.
On Adarsh, it is far from clear that the IFS officer did not lie when she made the original application in 2004 (the news reports appear to suggest she did). A lie here, a lie there, and before you know it, we are talking some serious consequences. Karma's a b**** etc.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/khobr ... l/1210170/
The Adarsh probe panel has claimed that Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat arrested in the US for alleged visa fraud and underpaying her help, furnished false information to own a flat in the cooperative housing society.
She had falsely claimed that she did not own a flat anywhere else at the time of her application for Adarsh membership, the commission has said.
Devyani was allotted Flat 2301 measuring 1,076 sq ft in "A" wing against her application dated July 28, 2004, when she was posted in Germany. The application was submitted on her behalf by her father Uttam Khobragade who said he had power of attorney. Khobragade was then secretary of the animal husbandry department. When she was granted membership, he was general manager, BEST.
The commission noted that two copies of her application (MEM-392 and MEM-392-A) are on record, both signed by her father. While the first mentions 'Nil' against her residence ownership column, the second mentions she owned a flat in Meera Co-op Society, Jogeshwari (W), Mumbai.
"Devyani told the Commission that she owned the Jogeshwari flat only in 2005. This statement is false since the 2004 application MEM-392-A mentions her to be a member of the society (Meera), which she said she would resign from when she gets the Adarsh allotment," the report says.
The report mentions she transferred the Jogeshwari flat on September 30, 2008, in favour of one Siddhrath Basu for Rs 1.90 crore through a sale deed that mentions her allotment letter dated July 5, 2004. "This clearly shows that Devyani already held a flat when she was allotted Adarsh membership on May 12, 2008, as Uttam Khobragade himself has stated," the commission says.
"This rendered her ineligible and despite that her membership was approved," the commision said.
