Foreign ministry dismisses Delhi minister’s charges
7 Feb 2014 5:46 AM IST
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 Delhi 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 chief BS Bassi demanding a probe into the allegations.
Dismissing Bharti’s claim, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said: ‘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, speaking to media, had made a charge that the sex and drug racket was flourishing because ‘Ugandan high commission in Delhi and the Indian high commission in Uganda were hand-in-glove on this.’
The three Ugandan women on Tuesday filed a police complaint following which the Delhi Commission for Women wrote to Delhi police chief BS Bassi demanding a probe into the allegations.
Dismissing Bharti’s claim, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said: ‘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, speaking to media, had made a charge that the sex and drug racket was flourishing because ‘Ugandan high commission in Delhi and the Indian high commission in Uganda were hand-in-glove on this.’
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