Indian diplomat’s daughter sues NYC for $1.5 mln
An Indian diplomat?s daughter is suing the New York City government for $1.5 million after she was unfairly arrested on the suspicion of sending obscene e-mails.
Krittika Biswas, 18, said that was humiliatingly removed from her school in handcuffs after being accused of sending the nasty emails to her high school teacher in Queens in February and was held for 28 hours.
However, she was later cleared of any wrongdoing as another student was found to have sent the obscene e-mails. Even though Biswas was eventually allowed back into the Queens’ John Bowne High School, that student was never arrested.
Biswas, the daughter of the vice consul at the Consulate General of India in Manhattan Debashish Biswas, also alleged that the police had failed to read her rights and even ignored her diplomatic immunity.
In prison she was ill-treated and was forced to go to the toilet in front of her cellmates, she said.
Her lawyer Rajiv Batra said that her arrest on Feb 8 was a violation of international law, US federal law as well as U.S. state and city law and she was traumatised by her temporary incarceration.
The District Attorney said that the details of the case are sealed and the city Law Department declined to comment saying it had not yet been served the $1.5 million suit.
