Pak denied the allegations and responded by expelling India's envoy to Pakistan from the country. According to surveillance reports, Jillani, along with other officials, had been involved in active espionage and had even paid money to All-Party Hurriyat Conference for increasing militancy in J&K. Jalil Abbas Jilani was the Pakistani envoy and Chargé d'Affaires of the Pak High Commission to India in 2003, before he was expelled by the Indian government on allegations of running a spy den in the supposedly overstaffed Pak high commission in Delhi. Jalil Abbas Jilani, Pakistan, 2003 Source: b'Jalil Abbas Jilani | Source: AFP File\xc2\xa0' A special clearance from the host government has to otherwise be sought. Point to be noted here is that the immunity, which, according to the Vienna Convention, flows down to the family members of a diplomat applies automatically only to underage children.
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Ali's father sought diplomatic immunity, and denied the charges, claiming that the driver had been inebriated and his death had been an accident, before flying his son out of India. In 2003, Mansoor Ali, the 24-year-old son of Senegal's ambassador to India, was accused of murdering his driver, Dilawar after an alleged fight over car keys in a five star hotel in Delhi. Source: b"The two Nepalese Women being escorted out of Ashoor's Gurgaon apartment | Source: Reuters\xc2\xa0" According to the Vienna Convention, a diplomats residence is as protected as the Embassy, and is out of bounds of the host nation's laws and agents of law. The Saudi government claimed that the Indian government was in infringement of international law by sending security forces into the diplomat's residence (the two Nepalese women were 'rescued' from Ashoor's Gurgaon house'). Here is a list of all the people who got away due to diplomatic immunity.Īmong the most recent instances is the case involving Saudi Embassy's First Secretary, Majed Hassan Ashoor, who had been accused of enslaving and raping two Nepalese women in his Gurgaon apartment in Delhi. Has Diplomatic Immunity Been Used In India Before? Legal definitions and interpretation might, however, vary from case to case, depending upon the bilateral agreements between nations. In strictly a technical sense (According to the Vienna Convention), the Indian government had no choice but to release Akhtar. The purpose of the immunity was so that foreign diplomats can maintain their dignity and safety in the host nation, without any threat of attack or intimidation to their person.Įven though Akhtar was a government staffer, according to Article 1 of the Vienna Convention, any member of a diplomatic commision is eligible to be protected by Diplomatic Immunity. The convention specifies different levels of immunity to diplomats posted in various levels of the embassy, consular or international organisations such as the UN. He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention,"
"The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. According to Article 21 of the Convention: The only action available to the foreign nation against a diplomat protected by Diplomatic Immunity is to expel the diplomat from the country.ĭiplomatic immunity was codified as part of International Law by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961. It allows for diplomats to have safe passage and stay in foreign nations, and provides blanket protection to diplomats from lawsuits and legal prosecution in a foreign (host) nation. XkSqOJgqi3- Shiv Aroor October 27, 2016ĭiplomatic Immunity is a type of legal immunity provided to diplomats of any particular country. Diplomatic immunity saves him, will be sent back to Pak.
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