{UAH} MEA dismisses Somnath Bharti's charges

MEA dismisses Somnath Bharti's charges

Agencies | Feb 7, 2014, 02.42 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Even as Delhi Police have recorded the statements of three Ugandan women who filed a police complaint alleging they had been tricked into a sex and drugs racket by Indian placement agencies, the external affairs ministry has dismissed law minister Somnath Bharti's claim that the Indian and Ugandan missions were "hand-in-glove" in the racket. 

The three Ugandan women on Tuesday filed a police complaint following which the Delhi Commission for Women wrote to Delhi Police commissioner B S Bassi demanding a probe into the allegations. Dismissing the minister's claim, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said Thursday: "Any assertion of such nature coming from any quarter is without any basis, without an iota of evidence and does not deserve a rejoinder." Bharti had said the sex racket was flourishing because the "Ugandan high commission in Delhi and the Indian high commission in Uganda were hand-in-glove on this".

___________________________________

Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower