With dust of the Devyani Khobragade’s arrest case yet to settle, India has been rocked by another case involving an embassy official. However, this time India is not at the receiving end. The Mumbai police have booked Bahrain Consul General to India, Mohammad Abdulaziz Al Khaja for molestation and threatening a woman. The woman is the manager of the apartment where he resides in South Mumbai.
In her First Information Report (FIR) to the Malabar Hill police the 49-year-old manager said that Al Khaja was furious when one of the lifts in the building stopped working on December 9 and barged into her office and verbally abused her. The manager alerted the building security and informed the police. A case registered by the Malabar Hill police. He has been booked under various sections for molestation, insult to the modesty of a woman and breach of the peace of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police officers however said that they would not arrest Khaja as he had diplomatic immunity. Security has been provided to the manager.