Express news service | New Delhi | Updated: Jun 18 2012, 02:31 IST
Summary : The case is complicated, sources said, since the victim is a foreign national but the alleged crime has taken place in Indian territory
The Ministry of External Affairs is consulting legal experts on the issue of the French diplomat, Pascal Mazurier, who has been accused of raping his three-and-half-year-old daughter, in Bangalore. New Delhi is taking legal opinion on whether diplomatic immunity is applicable in this case or not, sources said. The case is complicated, sources said, since the victim is a foreign national but the alleged crime has taken place in Indian territory. The MEA is ascertaining the facts from the
Bangalore police on the issue, and has got in touch with the French embassy to find out the diplomatic status of the concerned French diplomat.
This assumes significance in the wake of the wife of the accused diplomat, who has appealed to the government to ensure that the official faces trial in India even if he enjoys diplomatic immunity.
In a letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, Suja Jones Mazurier has requested that her husband be restrained from leaving the country till legal proceedings were completed and that under no circumstance should he be allowed custody of their children, who are French nationals.
Asha S Basu, counsel for Suja Jones Mazurier, who has written the letters on her behalf, sought protection for her client and her children.
Suja Jones wanted the French embassy to be directed to help her with legal and financial assistance, as she was currently unemployed and has to take care of their children. Suja Jones, an Indian citizen, said she is married to Pascal Mazurier, deputy Head of Chancery in the consulate of France,
Bangalore, and they have three children — a seven year-old son, the victim and a 20-month-old son.
She said apart from police registering a case of rape against the diplomat, in view of the “medical evidence”, the Baptist hospital, Bangalore, has also registered a medico-legal case against him.
Wife seeks monetary aid
The wife of the French diplomat, who has been accused of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, has sought monetary support to raise her children in case her husband is imprisoned. “Suja Jones Mazurier has sought monetary
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/french-envoy-row-mea-consulting-legal-experts/963318
Summary : The case is complicated, sources said, since the victim is a foreign national but the alleged crime has taken place in Indian territory
The Ministry of External Affairs is consulting legal experts on the issue of the French diplomat, Pascal Mazurier, who has been accused of raping his three-and-half-year-old daughter, in Bangalore. New Delhi is taking legal opinion on whether diplomatic immunity is applicable in this case or not, sources said. The case is complicated, sources said, since the victim is a foreign national but the alleged crime has taken place in Indian territory. The MEA is ascertaining the facts from the
Bangalore police on the issue, and has got in touch with the French embassy to find out the diplomatic status of the concerned French diplomat.
This assumes significance in the wake of the wife of the accused diplomat, who has appealed to the government to ensure that the official faces trial in India even if he enjoys diplomatic immunity.
In a letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, Suja Jones Mazurier has requested that her husband be restrained from leaving the country till legal proceedings were completed and that under no circumstance should he be allowed custody of their children, who are French nationals.
Asha S Basu, counsel for Suja Jones Mazurier, who has written the letters on her behalf, sought protection for her client and her children.
Suja Jones wanted the French embassy to be directed to help her with legal and financial assistance, as she was currently unemployed and has to take care of their children. Suja Jones, an Indian citizen, said she is married to Pascal Mazurier, deputy Head of Chancery in the consulate of France,
Bangalore, and they have three children — a seven year-old son, the victim and a 20-month-old son.
She said apart from police registering a case of rape against the diplomat, in view of the “medical evidence”, the Baptist hospital, Bangalore, has also registered a medico-legal case against him.
Wife seeks monetary aid
The wife of the French diplomat, who has been accused of raping his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, has sought monetary support to raise her children in case her husband is imprisoned. “Suja Jones Mazurier has sought monetary
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/french-envoy-row-mea-consulting-legal-experts/963318
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