The video in which High Commissioner to India, Charrandass Persaud, could be seen cursing a woman in New Delhi last year was the determining factor in the end of his tour of duty as diplomatic correspondence to the Foreign Ministry here made no mention of it and had cleared him of any wrongdoing, sources say.
“The existence of a video and the statement from the foreign ministry are two separate things. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was given a report from India which cleared Mr. Persaud of any wrongdoing. And it was only yesterday (Wednesday), for the first time, that the Foreign Ministry knew that there was a video of the incident,” a source with knowledge of the case told Stabroek News.
The source added, “What was the Ministry to do when you have the government of India saying that Mr. Persaud had been cleared after its investigation into the matter? India is a sovereign state.”