NEW YORK
 
A formerly happy domestic aide, living it up in a studio apartment in the former Astor Mansion off Fifth Avenue, apparently crazed about illegally cashing in on America's need for domestic help wanted to moonlight in violation of her contract, American visa, and her India-issued "official" "white" passport, which is issued to "service and administrative staff" of consular posts. Counsul General Dayal did not permit such illegality nor turn a blind eye to violation of American law.
 
A woman who was so happy with Consul General Prabhu Dayal and his family, that she repeatedly wanted to work for him after working for him in India from March 2003 to July 2004. She worked for him in Morocco where he was India's Ambassador to that nation from July 2004 to July 2008, and went on India-home leave for a month during October 2005. Then, she insisted upon joining him in New York six months after he had assumed his duties in New York on September 6, 2008, and came to New York on February 23, 2009 and abandoned her employment for illegal riches from illegal employment on January 28, 2010 at about 3pm. This fraudster of a woman, seeing dollar signs, has hit on a "GET RICH QUICK" scheme after a year and a half of illegally staying and working in New York: fraudulent defamation of a highly respected and honored member of the diplomatic corps  in New York. This scheme won't work. American courts are well known for repelling fabricated allegations, and in federal court, Rule 11 serves to remind all, client and lawyer, of the real cost of friivolity and fabrication: full indemnification, including, attorneys fees, in addition to court-ordered sanctions.
 
The apartment she occupied in the former Astor Mansion, now India House, located at 3 East 64th Street, is a separate studio partment #3 on the fifth floor. After her abandonment, Mrs Dayal's brother has stayed in that apartment, as well as many other personal guests of the Dayals.
 
She has betrayed the trust of the Dayal family, India, and the United States, with her illegal abandonment of emplyment in favor of illegal higher pay from illegal employers. That she alone of the approximately 70 Consulate staff had the key to the Consul General's apartment on the fouth floor, aside from the Dayal family, speaks volumes of the trust bestowed upon her, which she betrayed selfishly and obviously once even had a sexual fantasy.
 
Santosh Bhardwaj, a 45-year old non-vegitarian Indian citizen here in the United States on an "official" Indian "white" passport arrived in New York on February 23, 2009, and abandoned her legal visa-based contractual employment on January 28, 2010, as her boss, CG Dayal, would not agree to her moonlighting in New York as an illegal domestic for other employers for her considerable off-time. Her illegal desires for illegal employment was the solitary reason for her leaving her $400-a-week employment as it was contractually based upon $10-an-hour, less normal applicable taxes etc. That she was paid her salary, with necessary holdback for social security, income taxes is beyond dispute and documented with payments, as desired by her, as she did not maintain a bank account in New York. Payment was made via remittances to her two accounts in India, payment for medical and dental bills of hers, payment for her airline expense, payments in cash to her for pocket money here in New York.
 
The Chinese rightly say that a picture says a thousand words. Well, the pictures of her apartment #3 on the 5th floor of the Mansion would make every student drool for such a big studio apartment, almost 300 square feet in a door-man building, that has a grey-striped lounge chair, 2 velvet armchairs with matching ottomans, a queen sized bed with a side table that has a lamp and a telephone with service all across America! There is a 24" color television, a huge floor mirror, a dresser, a large closet and a full three piece bathroom with an amazing skylight to die for. Only thing missing was a kitchen. It sets the standard for a well-rested and well-loved home help, that is thought off as a family member and accordingly trusted.

ന്യൂയോര്‍ക്കിലെ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ കോണ്‍സല്‍ ജനറല്‍ പ്രഭു ദയാലിനെതിരെ  അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ വീട്ടുജോലിക്കാരി രംഗത്ത്. സന്തോഷ് ഭരദ്വാജ് എന്ന മുന്‍ വീട്ടുവേലക്കാരിയാണ് പ്രഭു ദയാല്‍ പാസ്‌പോര്‍ട്ട് തടഞ്ഞുവെച്ചിരിക്കുകയാണെന്നുമുള്ള പരാതിയുമായി രംഗത്തെത്തിയത്.

2008 ലാണ് വീട്ടുജോലിക്കാരിയായി തന്നെ നിയമിച്ചത്. എന്നാല്‍ പ്രഭു ദയാലും ഭാര്യയും അടിമയോട് പെരുമാറുന്ന തരത്തിലാണ് തന്നോട് പെരുമാറിയതെന്നും പറഞ്ഞതിലും ചെറിയ തുകയാണ് പ്രതിഫലമായി നല്‍കിയിരുന്നതെന്നും പരാതിയില്‍ പറയുന്നു. 45 കാരിയായ പരാതിക്കാരി നാല് കുട്ടികളുടെ അമ്മയാണ്.

എന്നാല്‍ ആരോപണം അസംബന്ധമാണെന്ന് പ്രഭു ദയാല്‍ പ്രതികരിച്ചു. ലീഗല്‍ എയ്ഡ് സൊസൈറ്റി മുഖേനയാണ് ഇവര്‍ പരാതി നല്‍കിയത്. ന്യൂയോര്‍ക്ക് സതേണ്‍ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്ട് കോടതിയിലാണ് പരാതി നല്‍കിയിരിക്കുന്നത്

Washington, June 21 (IANS) The Indian consul general in New York, Prabhu Dayal, has dismissed as "mischievous" and "complete nonsense" charges by a former housekeeper that she was treated like a slave while working for him and his family.

"These are mischievous and malicious lies. Complete nonsense," Dayal told IANS on phone from New York, reacting to a forced-labour suit filed against him by Santosh Bhardwaj, 45, in a Manhattan federal court Monday.

The housekeeper has alleged that Dayal promised her $10 an hour, plus overtime, to cook and clean for him and his wife after he was appointed to his post in 2008, according to New York Post.

But after arriving in the US, Dayal confiscated her passport and paid her only $300 a month to sleep in a storage closet and toil 15-plus hours a day, seven days a week, she alleged.

The Post citing her suit to say she is seeks unspecified damages and the return of her passport.

She said she escaped last year by slipping out of the Indian consulate building on East 64th Street while Dayal was out at a meeting and his wife was in her room with the door closed.

Rejecting Bhardwaj's charges, Dayal said: "The allegations made by Santosh Bhardwaj against me are totally baseless.

"She was in my employment in Delhi for one year, in Morocco for four years and in New York for eleven months from February 2009 to Jan 28, 2010.

"She wanted to work part time outside to earn more money but I refused permission as she was on an official passport and her visa did not allow her to work anywhere expect in my home," Dayal said.

"Thereafter, she absconded on 28th Jan, 2010, and it is surprising that she has filed this case one and a half years after leaving my employment."

Referring to her charges that she had to live in a storage closet, Dayal said: "This is completely false as she had a well-furnished room with an attached bathroom.

"The room was equipped with air-conditioner, TV, a telephone and had central heating. Besides she was paid her full emoluments as per my obligation, and she had saved a lot of money.

"Without these savings she would not have been able to meet her living costs in New York from January 2010 when she left me till June 2011," he said.

"She left my employment as she wanted to do moon-lighting by earning more money by working outside. She was refused this permission and decided to leave my employment.

"The matter was reported straightaway to the local authorities as well as to the ministry of external affairs. The charges levelled by her are totally false and baseless."

Dayal also rejected as an "insinuation" charges that he had asked the housekeeper "for a massage, which she interpreted as a sexual advance", saying he never asked for a massage.

"No question. I never asked for a massage," Dayal said, even though he had some pain in the leg for which he was under treatment. "It's a mischievous insinuation."

The Post also cited a spokeswoman for the Legal Aid Society, which is representing Bhardwaj, as saying that Dayal isn't protected by diplomatic immunity because consular officers are only covered for their "official acts".

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