Security of Indian citizens matter of serious concern for government: MEA
India raised the killing of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a hate attack in Kansas with US authorities in “very strong terms”, a top official said on Thursday, adding that the security of Indians and persons of Indian origin is a matter of serious concern for the Indian government.
On a day the issue featured in a major way in Parliament and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh assured the Lok Sabha that the government is taking the issue very seriously, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said in a briefing that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was conveyed by US officials during his talks in Washington that the attack on Kuchibhotla and another Indian in the February 22 incident was an “individual case”.
Baglay said that the Indian Consulate reached out to the fa...