NYPD officer arrested in India 'as revenge' for 'Nannygate' diplomatic scandal

[MilSpec]

Up to the judge.
Yours n mine opinion don't count..

I am not passing any judgement here, i am simply expressing my view.

 

[Abingdonboy]

I think this is a simple case, the cop should not be harassed... It seems like a honest mistake, let him pay any fines if associated with such cases and let him go...

You think a fine in this case is enough? He brought in live ammunition into India whether this was an honest mistake or not. As has been said- ignorance to the law is not a defence. Carrying live ammunition on a commercial airliner let alone into a foreign nation is not something paying a fine will address.

 

[rockstarIN]

I think this is a simple case, the cop should not be harassed... It seems like a honest mistake, let him pay any fines if associated with such cases and let him go...

Sorry the law clearly says 3 years minimum jail term. Even sanjay dutt is in jail

 

[MilSpec]

You think a fine in this case is enough? He brought in live ammunition into India whether this was an honest mistake or not. As has been said- ignorance to the law is not a defence. Carrying live ammunition on a commercial airliner let alone into a foreign nation is not something paying a fine will address.

You are correct. Law should take it's course, My initial take was wrong.

Sorry the law clearly says 3 years minimum jail term. Even sanjay dutt is in jail

Again you are right, i stand corrected.

 

[narcon]

I am not passing any judgement here, i am simply expressing my view.

View?
Do you know if there are fines against such offences in India without prison time?

 

[MilSpec]

View?
Do you know if there are fines against such offences in India without prison time?

No I dont, thus my initial comment was wrong, I stand corrected.

 

[karan.1970]

Yes we have seen tht wrt Iran etc... u didnt just bend rather obliged.

Well, we still do the same trade with Iran and are expanding the strategic ties.. You on the other hand have meekly surrendered the famous IPI/IPC/IP pipeline.

 

[rockstarIN]

You are correct. Law should take it's course, My initial take was wrong.


Again you are right, i stand corrected.

Even I remember cases when kerala communist party chief was caught in air port with live bullets. Nothing happened to him since he got Indian arms license and accidentally he brought live ammo. I don't know how this case will evolve since it is arrived from a foreign country and not an Indian national .

 

[Thirdfront]

How the fck did he manage to go through US airport security with bullets in his pocket. What a joke

I think the jacket with the bullets were packed in his checked in luggage, but still major lapse from TSA...

 

[Contrarian]

Lolololololololol great going India .. Screw your diplomatic ties with USA ..

This is India, not Pakistan.
Its Pakistan where you bend over backwards for dollars and relations from everyone- USA to KSA.

 

[Blanc]

One of my American friend told me that America is checking with Hindu Priests about any provision of bullet money in Hinduism as we have blood money in Islam. They are thinking they can get their officer released like Raymond Davis.Bullet money

 

[kaykay]

This is India, not Pakistan.
Its Pakistan where you bend over backwards for dollars and relations from everyone- USA to KSA.

Ouch. You evil yindoo.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Well, we still do the same trade with Iran and are expanding the strategic ties.. You on the other hand have meekly surrendered the famous IPI/IPC/IP pipeline.

Yeah right here:

US lauds India for reducing Iranian oil imports

This is India, not Pakistan.
Its Pakistan where you bend over backwards for dollars and relations from everyone- USA to KSA.

Just like u bend over to ussr n than cry to USA n now after USA strips n body cavity searches ur freaking female dip all you can do is cry abt it? Lmao ... Reducing oil imports heck even going against Iran? detaining a cop over a small crime n term it revenge ? U bollywood goofs

 

[Brahmos_2]

WASHINGTON: Manny Encarnacion's friends think India is getting its own back for the Khobragade Nannygate spat. "You guys like to strip-search our diplomats," an Indian security official reportedly told the NYPD cop at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport as he arrested him on March 10 for "inadvertently" traveling there with three bullets in his checked luggage.

Nearly four weeks later, NYPD is still trying to bring back its 49-year old officer, who was visiting India to meet his Iranian wife Vida because they found it easier to rendezvous there. It has written a letter to Indian officials explaining his "innocent mistake."

According to the NYPD version, Encarnacion was taking a required firearms recertification at a shooting range two days before he was to leave for India. At the end of the session, he tucked three spare rounds into his jacket pocket, and forgot about them. The bullets were still in the pocket when he packed his jacket in his suitcase to travel to India.

"He knows he didn't do anything wrong," said Raul Borbon, a friend of the officer was quoted as saying in the New York Post, which first reported the story. "It's an innocent mistake."

Regardless of whether New Delhi agrees with this, the NYPD cop is having to go through the legal grind in India, leading the Post, if not his friends, to believe he is being targeted to avenge the Khobragade episode in which the Indian diplomat was run out of New York in what New Delhi said was an overblown case.

The State Department said it was aware of the incident, but declined to go into details because of what spokesperson Marief Harf said were "privacy considerations."

Asked if it was seen as retribution from New Delhi for the Khobragade episode, Harf said the US wanted to "get past some of the tensions that have been there over the past several months and move on."

"I just can't speak to this specific case... I think we feel like we've moved past this and hope the Indians have as well," she added.

Delhi Police commissioner B S Bassi did not reply to the text messages. The deputy commissioner (IGI airport), Irshad Haidar, confirmed the arrest but added that he did not have any detail. Officials, however, denied that this arrest had any connection with the diplomat case.

It was during the transit security check that the bullets were found in his luggage, said sources. The cop could not allegedly give a satisfactory answer. "An FIR (number 82) under Section 25 of Arms Act has been registered. He has been granted bail," said a source.

But New York's tabloid leader went to town with the story. "NYPD cop held in India as 'Nannygate' revenge," read the headline in NY Post, above a photo of Encarnacion in front of the Taj Mahal, with an inset picture of Devyani Khobragade.

The paper said Encarnacion has charged with violating the country's Arms Act of 1959 — and is facing up to seven years in an Indian prison for what it described as a "trumped up charge."

Although he has hired a local lawyer to represent him, he is forbidden from leaving the country until his case plays out in court. "He was supposed to be going for 2¹/2 weeks, but it's turning into five weeks, if he comes back on April 19," his next court date in India, his friend Borbon said, adding that the NYPD cop of ten years wasn't really sweating it out because he was getting to spend additional time with his wife.

He could end up doing plenty more time: The NYPD has told him if he gets convicted of a felony, he'll lose his job.

NYPD cop held at IGI airport as revenge for Devyani Khobragade spat? - The Times of India

 

[Contrarian]

Yeah right here:

US lauds India for reducing Iranian oil imports

Yeah..that is quid pro quo for getting nuclear deal. We negotiated a deal on that.

Unlike Pakistan we dont give away sovereignty for 'saudi dates' and 'american aid'.