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Krishna<\/a> stressed Wednesday that he did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and made it clear that the Indian law will prevail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what I understand he does not enjoy diplomatic immunity as he does not hold a diplomatic passport,&#8221; Krishna told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>Amid speculation about a separate probe by the French authorities into the incident, Krishna said: &#8220;The question of carrying out a parallel investigation does not arise. The law of the land shall prevail,&#8221; he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangalore police Tuesday arrested Mazurier, who has been accused by Suja Jones, his Indian wife, of sexually abusing their four-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The French embassy has confirmed that the 39-year-old Mazurier, deputy head of chancery in the French consulate at Bangalore, does not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and it is up to police to take action against him.<\/p>\n<p>The French foreign ministry has said in a statement that since a probe was under way, &#8220;we cannot comment at this stage&#8221; on the allegation against Mazurier. &#8220;The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963, does not provide for immunity of jurisdiction for acts committed outside the exercise of consular duties (Article 43),&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><ins>The French consulate has also assured the police of its cooperation in the case and assisting the family of the child.<\/ins><\/p>\n<p><ins>&#8220;An investigation is under way for which this consulate general is extending cooperation to the police and authorities in charge. We remain also in touch with the family of the child,&#8221; the statement said.<\/ins><\/p>\n<p><ins>The rape charge came to light when the official&#8217;s wife, who hails from Kerala, approached Enfold India, an NGO-based pro-active health trust in the city, for counselling as she was going through a trauma of being a witness to her husband abusing their child over the past few weeks.<\/ins><\/p>\n<p><ins>As part of the investigation, police sent the minor to a state-run hospital for an examination to substantiate the charge against Mazurier.<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversy regarding who\u2019s law will prevail in French rape case is over. A day after French consulate official Pascal Mazurier was arrested for allegedly abusing his minor daughter, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna stressed Wednesday that he did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and made it clear that the Indian law will prevail. &#8220;From what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9136,9135],"class_list":["post-21018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-french-rape-case","tag-indias-stand-on-french-rape-caselaw-of-land-will-prevail-in-rape-case-against-french-official"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India\u2019s stand on French rape case:Law of land will prevail in rape case against French official - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The controversy regarding who\u2019s law will prevail in French rape case is over. 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The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Dharam Singh on Monday also imposed a fine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Nari-Niketan-rape-case.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":46641,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-hc-refuses-quash-rape-charge-man","url_meta":{"origin":21018,"position":5},"title":"Delhi HC refuses to quash rape charge against man","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Delhi High Court today refused to quash rape charges against a man, observing that it cannot be inferred that the \"somersault\" by the woman was \"genuine\". \"There are specific and clear allegations against the petitioner in the statement of the complainant on the basis of which the FIR in question\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Criminal Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Criminal Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/criminal-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"Delhi HC refuses to quash rape charge against man","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/gangrape.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6H5Bf-5t0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}