"And one wonders why there is so much outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian national accused of perpetrating these acts, but precious little outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian victim and her spouse?” Bharara said in his statement..
Bharara said there have been inaccuracies in the rhetoric and reporting after the Dec 12 arrest of Khobragade and these were “misleading people and creating an inflammatory atmosphere on an unfounded basis”.
Bharara said: "Khobragade was accorded courtesies “well beyond what other defendants, most of whom are American citizens, are accorded”.
He denied Devyani was arrested in front of her children or handcuffed. Arresting officers did not seize her phone, as is the usual practice, and she was allowed to make numerous phone calls from the officers' car as it was cold outside, he said. The officers even brought her coffee and offered to get her food, Bharara said.
* Khobragade was strip searched, but that was done in private by a female deputy marshal and is a standard practice to ensure that the prisoner does not have anything on his or her person with which harm can be done to anyone, including the prisoner.
