RS panel too lets off Ronen Sen

The Upper House committee, headed by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan, that met here on Tuesday, closed the issue after asking him to exercise caution in future.

According to sources, the Rajya Sabha committee said that the “personal frame of mind should not be allowed to influence public utterances of a senior and seasoned diplomat” like Sen. The ambassador, according to the committee, should have exercised “abundant caution and restraint.”

The committee expressed the hope that such a lapse, as admitted by the veteran diplomat, would not recur. It noted that Sen had accepted in his own testimony on November 2 that his remarks were unwarranted.