French Consulate arrested for raping daughter

BANGALORE: The official in the French consulate in Bangalore, who was accused of raping his three-and-a-half year-old daughter was arrested today.
The arrest comes a day after the Ministry of Home Affairs clarified to the city police that the accused Pascal Mazurier did not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and action can be taken as per law.
Mazurier’s wife Suja jones has lodged a complaint in this regard in a police station.  Police had registered a case of rape against Mazurier, Deputy Head of Chancery in the Consulate of France, Bangalore.
French government sources had said in Delhi that Indian law will take its course as the accused working in its Bangalore Consulate does not hold a diplomatic passport and enjoys no immunity.
Suja had made an appeal to the Indian government that her husband be tried in India. “The children now need to be taken care of…the mother has gone through some counselling. But we demand from the French government that they provide financial assistance throughout to the family,” said Nina Nayak, chairperson of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.