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Jan 13 • 4 tweets • 9 min read
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My name is Rohan Mehta and I will try to make this as easy to understand as possible. I have been employed with Ministry of External Affairs for more than 8 years now. During this period, I have served in Embassy of India, Moscow and Consulate General of India, Sao Paulo.
While working in Sao Paulo, I learned that the Consul General (head of Consulate) was a totally corrupt lady Manisha Swami and she used to harass all employees. Her modus operandi was simple: she used to come to office for some time and abuse and shout at the employees and then leave for the whole day. She was also misusing official resources. There was another Consulate employee (Adarsh Mishra) who was harassing female employees and not working at all. Before I move further, let me tell you the salaries of both of these employees which is effectively taxpayers' money(USD $7000 and USD $5200 per month approx. respectively).
As Consul General learned that I was the only one who could complain, she nudged another employee to make a fake sexual harassment complaint against me. The goal was that I either back off or probably commit suicide as a result of the fear they were trying to create in my mind. But why would I have fear when I had done nothing. The name of the lady who complained is Gayatri Gosain. This lady used to tell me that she used to treat me like an elder sister. And I gave her all due respect like you would to your sister. By complaining against me, she did an extremely cheap thing. But when this complaint reached Ministry of External Affairs and when she was asked if she wants to proceed with the complaint she backed off
(either because of shame because she knew that she made a fake complaint or because she knew that Complaint Committee takes action against the complainee when it is fake). Now also, I have all documents to prove it was fake. I will post an image which shows how much harassment I was facing while I was in Sao Paulo. Also, Adarsh had also harassed Gayatri Gosain and the first 3 minutes of one hour recording on my Facebook post(link is available below in the tweet about sequence of posts) have proof of the same.
Now let's move further. I eventually made a corruption complaint on 5 January 2024. I addressed it to Indian Ambassador in Brazil Suresh Reddy and Administration head in India B Vanlalvawna. I informed about the corruption and also about the sexual harassment instances. But instead of taking any action against the culprits, I was recalled to India and was asked to travel back on 9 January 2024. I intimated that I was not vaccinated against yellow fever so I maybe allowed to take vaccine and travel after 10 days once the vaccine becomes effective. Regardless, I was given an exemption certificate to travel without vaccine(this was a clear safety hazard). I am attaching a copy of the certificate here. The guy who signed this certificate was also harassing another Brazilian lady and a recording of the same is available on my Facebook post.
I returned to India and asked about action taken on my complaint. I was told that no action will be taken against it. In a short while, Ministry opened a fake case against me alleging that my fiancée(who is Brazilian) was living with me in Brazil. My fiancée was not living with me in Brazil and I intimated the same. I also intimated that I was facing harassment and I even submitted a copy of corruption complaint to Vigilance Section. They called me two months after my reply and tried to coerce me to change my statement and write that my fiancée was living with me. This coercion was openly illegal and anyone who wants to know what happened can listen to the following recording.
This recording is 40 minutes long and in the second half the Undersecretary from Vigilance Section is repetitively trying to force me to change my statement. In the first half, another personnel from Vigilance tells me that generally action is taken against people who complain about corruption.
Despite all this is already public, the Undersecretary has been sent on foreign posting. All expenses incurred are taxpayer's money. B Vanlalvawna is proceeding as Ambassador to Cambodia. Again, all expenditure incurred will be taxpayers' money.
Anyways, as they continued harassing me, I eventually complained to CVC. Subsequent to CVC complaint, the fake case against me was closed but I was given a recordable warning without any basis. You can see the document and you can see its baseless wording.
Even after complaining to CVC when nothing happened, I made everything public. This tweet has a link and order of all my posts. There are video and audio recording proofs on my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter which can be accessed from link below.
After my first post on Facebook, I learned about more corruption. Sometimes, Ministry doesn't reply to RTIs or gives random excuse to hide public information but in this case, I received a reply which indicates that monthly rent for Embassy of India Baghdad was increased from USD $2916 to USD $20833 per month in 2013. The Ambassador in Baghdad during this period was none other than Suresh Reddy(the current Ambassador in Brazil). Here is the RTI reply:
I also got to know about two cases of rape. One happened in Indian High Commission in Bangladesh in 2015. A maid was raped and murdered and no action was taken by the Ministry against its 3 employees who were the culprits. Instead, the whole Ministry knows that every proof was deleted immediately. Even Dhruv Rathee's writer Vijeta Dahiya (who used to work in the Ministry) knows about this case. The second rape case happened in another embassy 22 years back. This time the Ambassador was the culprit. No action was taken again.
I don't want any of you to believe me on my word. Go through the proofs. Then, once you see it is right, I feel you should share it. If you care about women's rights, you should share all this. If you care about men's rights, you should again share all this. Most importantly, if you are a taxpayer who cares about your own money, then you should share it and question what the hell is happening with your money. And if you are an Indian who cares about India and actually wants to see India grow, then you must share it.
As a consequence of the brutal murder of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, everyone is posting nowadays to protect journalists while they are alive. I have a question to all these people. Where are you and where is your integrity? I am not a journalist but I am an honest citizen and I am alive yet now. Are you waiting for something?
I believe India is independent but if after all these clear proofs no action is taken against these corrupt officers then perhaps the status can be changed to "Ruled by corrupt civil servants".
Now let me give some small background about myself. I have a BTech in Computer Science. I worked in private sector for three years. After that I was pursuing MBA from MDI Gurgaon from which I dropped out and joined this Ministry. During my two foreign postings, I learned Russian and Portuguese myself. After making these public posts, I was suspended for 3 months. This suspension has been extended to 6 more months. Despite all this harassment, I decided to take CAT three months before the exam. I scored 97%ile. The question is that why is this Ministry harassing me and giving free reins to corrupt babus?
This message is a call and request to all honest Indians. Wherever you are, share it a lot so that everyone knows. I believe India can be a Vishwaguru. But it will not happen if corrupt civil servants will be given free reins to loot taxpayers money.
In case anything happens to me, these corrupt officers should be held responsible. I want to clarify here. I am not doing anything to myself (I value life) but if I die any kind of unnatural death, it would definitely be because of these corrupt officers.
I have tagged Mr. S Jaishankar many times in the tweets - on Instagram, on X and on Facebook. He knows about this case. I am appalled that Mr. S Jaishankar himself has a daughter yet no action has been taken by the Ministry against the person who was harassing women in Brazil or against other corrupt officers. Does he have no shame that he is openly supporting corrupt officers? Or is he again going to blame this on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru?
I am going to tag below several accounts who I believe are responsible citizens. I am also going to tag some prominent foreign universities so that in case something happened to me perhaps they can understand why my message never reached the right people.
@ShashiTharoor @Ram_Guha @Wangchuk66 @SupriyaShrinate @Pawankhera @mohakmangal @foodpharmer2 @thevirdas @theskindoctor13 @MANJULtoons @_YogendraYadav @thewire_in @SauravDassss @sandeep_PT @rakhitripathi @jawharsircar @ajitanjum @barkhatrehan16 @satishacharya @malpani
@AtishiAAP @SanjayAzadSln @raghav_chadha @MahuaMoitra @TheDeshBhakt @bhagatram2020 @prakashraaj @apnarajeevnigam @ravishndtv @mynameswatik
@Sydusm @mediacrooks @newslaundry @MnshaP @AbhinandanSekhr @BBCIndia @AAPforNewIndia @Amockx2022 @sanket @rantinggola @ReallySwara @mohitlaws @suchetadalal @nitishrajpute @Harvard @Stanford @Yale @Columbia @mehdirhasan
