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New Delhi: An Australian court Wednesday ordered former Indian highcommissioner to Canberra, Navdeep Suri, to pay a penalty of AU$ 97,200 to a domestic staff member who worked for him for 13 months in 2016-16...
The fine comes on top of a previous order that required a payment of AU$ 1,36,276.62 plus interest to Seema Shergill for work completed during that period...
According to local media reports, Suri paid his domestic worker, Shergill, about AU$ 3,400 between April 2015 and May 2016 which is less than AU$10 a day...
The then MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, We reject any locus standi of Australian authorities to adjudicate on matters concerning such India-based service staff of the High Commission...
In 2013, Devyani Khobragade, the then acting consul general of the Indian consulate in New York was arrested by American authorities after being accused of lying on a visa application for her domestic staff and underpaying the individual in question...
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