{"id":31423,"date":"2013-12-28T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T06:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31423"},"modified":"2013-12-28T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T06:23:17","slug":"bhararas-office-goof-khobragade-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bhararas-office-goof-khobragade-case","title":{"rendered":"Did Bharara&#8217;s office goof up in Khobragade case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/bhararas-office-goof-khobragade-case\/aa-18\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31424\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bhararas-office-goof-khobragade-case\/aa-18\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/aa13.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"aa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/aa13.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/aa13.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-31424 alignright\" alt=\"aa\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aa13-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/aa13.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/aa13.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/aa13.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Did the office of Manhattan&#8217;s India-born prosecutor Preet Bharara goof up in the paperwork for the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to spark a major India-US diplomatic row?<\/p>\n<p>Khobragade&#8217;s lawyer Daniel Arschack claims so, suggesting that India&#8217;s then deputy consul general in New York was only arrested because a federal agent &#8220;erroneously and disastrously&#8221; misread a visa application form for her housekeeper and babysitter.<\/p>\n<p>The US federal agent in the case &#8220;simply made an error in reading the form which supported the visa application for the domestic worker&#8221;, Arschack was quoted as saying by New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Arshack, according to the daily, believes the agent mistakenly thought the $4,500 a month salary entered on the form was what Khobragade intended to pay her nanny Sangeeta Richard.<\/p>\n<p>It was instead the base salary expected by Khobragade at her job, and included in the form to show the employer made enough money to pay her employee, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Khobragade, 39, who was strip-searched and freed on $250,000 bail after her Dec 12 arrest has pleaded not guilty in the Manhattan Federal Court to charges of visa fraud and making false statements on Richard&#8217;s visa application.<\/p>\n<p>India has transferred the diplomat to its Permanent Mission at the UN in a bid to get her fuller &#8220;diplomatic immunity&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;consular immunity&#8221; limited to her official work.<\/p>\n<p>UN has already registered Khobragade as a member of the Indian mission, but needs State Department approval for her transfer from the Indian consulate in New York to her new job as counsellor at the UN mission.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors charged Khobragade with lying in the visa application by declaring that Richard, 42, would receive $10-an-hour, but paid her only $3.31 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Arshack said his client intended to pay the housekeeper the minimum New York wage of $9.75 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the US attorney had no comment on Arshack&#8217;s interpretation of the paperwork, the Daily News said.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the office of Manhattan&#8217;s India-born prosecutor Preet Bharara goof up in the paperwork for the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to spark a major India-US diplomatic row? Khobragade&#8217;s lawyer Daniel Arschack claims so, suggesting that India&#8217;s then deputy consul general in New York was only arrested because a federal agent &#8220;erroneously and disastrously&#8221; 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