New Delhi: The US embassy and its consulates may be in violation of their own laws concerning the wages paid to the Indian staff employed by these missions as well as by individual diplomats, informed sources said here today.
Keeping up the pressure on the US, a special group set up in the External Affairs Ministry will meet here tomorrow to scrutinize the available information regarding the wages being paid to their Indian staff amid indications that these may be violative of the laws.
US embassy and its consulates are still dragging their feet in furnishing to the government the details it has sought about the number of Indian staff employed both in the diplomatic mission and also at the residences by their diplomats.
The details sought include the wages paid as well as the tax details.
