U.S. Prosecutor’s Crusade Against Indian Diplomat is About His Moral Ego, Not Foreign Nannies

India and America are suffering from their worst diplomatic
crisis in 20 years. The cause? A showdown over how a
Manhattan-based Indian diplomat was treated by U.S. Prosecutor
Preet Bharara for allegedly underpaying her Indian housekeeper. She
was arrested when dropping her daughters off to school, strip
searched, and held in a cell with “common” criminals, in violation
of her diplomatic immunity.

Although Indians have a disturbing tendency to equate their
national pride with how their government officials are treated
abroad, I note in the Washington Examiner, they do have a point

Bharara, himself of Indian origin, asked them: “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?” It’s a good
question.

But the answer is not, as Bharara insinuated, the deeply
class-conscious Indian society that reflexively treats the rich and
powerful as more equal than the poor and powerless. It is that
Indians see Bharara’s pompous insistence on enforcing a
preposterous rule of law without regard to the human context as
moral fanaticism.

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