Reacting on the arrest of Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said that in the wake of the recent SC ruling criminalising gay sex, even homosexual diplomats, who have been granted visa for staying in India, should be arrested.
With India cutting down privileges of US diplomats following the arrest of IFS officer Devyani Khobragade's arrest in New York, BJP leader Yaswant Singh today demanded that the government take action against US personnel in India having same sex companions following the Supreme Court order against gay sex.
"Media has reported that we have issued visas to a number of US diplomats' companions. 'Companions' means that they are of the same sex. Now, after the Supreme Court ruling, it is completely illegal in our country, just as paying less wages was illegal in the US.
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"So, why does not the Government of India go ahead and arrest them and punish them," Sinha said.
Yashwant Sinha
India has been upset over the arrest of Deputy Counsel General Devyani Khobragade, a 1999-batch IFS officer, on a street in New York over visa fraud charges as she was dropping her daughter to school. She was later released on a USD250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in court.
India today retaliated strongly by initiating series of steps to strip US diplomats and their families of privileges including withdrawing all airport passes and stopping import clearances for the embassy.u00a0
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