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Saturday, September 18, 1999
We're clean, claims MEA
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, SEPT 17: A spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs claimed on Friday that the French foreign office has told New Delhi that Lalita Oraon was examined by three doctors, including a gynaecologist, all of them empanelled by the French authorities, on September 6. And that ``no external injuries were reported by the doctors.'' He, however, said that the French public prosecutor continued to examine the case.The spokesman said the examination was carried out the day after Lalita fled Amrit Lugun (her employer)'s home, after which she was sent to a monastery in Paris. The spokesman was at pains to say that the Lalita Oraon case was an ``individual'' one and ``not an issue between India and France and has no bearing and effect on Indo-French relations.'' MEA officials said the Indian Embassy in Paris had now been given access to Lalita, something they had been ``denied'' over the last 10 days. Indian Embassy officials have claimed that Lalita was injured when she was in the custody of Frenchauthorities. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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