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Devyani Khobragade says she will not resign
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IBNS) Diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who has been removed from her duties in the Ministry of External Affairs for speaking to the news channel NDTV without the permission of the ministry, said she will not resign from her post.
"There is no question of resigning (from the Foreign Service). I have not violated any service rules," the diplomat told NDTV.
She said she did not violate any conduct rules.
"I have spoken under the ambit of conduct rules. The rules clearly stipulate that you have to mention (during such interviews) that you are expressing your personal views, which I did. You do not say anything that can be taken as a negative view of government policies; I have not done anything like that," she told the news channel.
On Saturday, according to NDTV report, the ministry said Khobragade did not take due permission before making statements and she was put under "compulsory watch".
NDTV quoting sources said the action was taken against Khobragade also "because the ministry is 'miffed' with the IFS officer for not disclosing that her children have US passports."
The diplomat is facing a vigilance probe over the issue, said the channel.
She earlier told the channel: "Some false reports have come in the newspapers that there is some illegality around my children's passports and that I hid a fact that my children have American passports. There is nothing of that sort, I myself informed the government that my kids were born in the US and are considered US citizens."
On the charges of her father and her involvement in the Adarsh housing scam of Mumbai, Khobragade told the channel, "My father never handled the Adarsh file, therefore he never violated any of the service rules. The CBI has now closed its inquiry and neither my name nor my father's name figures in that report. So that rests the allegations of corruption and wrongdoing."
In January, then Indian diplomat in USA, Devyani Khobragade, returned to India after she was charged with a visa fraud over her maid, arrested, strip-searched and then kept in a lock up with ordinary criminals in New York triggering a huge controversy and bittering of relationship between two countries surrounding the treatment she was meted out.
After the incident in New York, she was transferred to a UN posting by India offering her more immunity though the charges against her remained. Devyani was the Deputy Consul General of India in New York when she was arrested.
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