THE family of the late Ashneel Singh who was killed in a road accident allegedly involving a South African diplomat wants to know if there has been progress in investigations on the accident.
Mr Singh’s sister Shivani Singh said they had approached Government but the response had not provided them any solace.
She said the Attorney-General’s office responded that they were liaising with the South African Government, however, her family was frustrated to hear through the media that the diplomat had left the country.
“We have been following this up for the last 14 days. They were supposed to give us a report. They haven’t replied to us yet, so we have no idea what is going on. We have not heard any word from police as yet,” she said.
Ms Singh said they approached the South African High Commissioner but there had been no response.
Her cousin Rahul Prakash hopes the Government would be able to request the South African Government to revoke the diplomat’s immunity so he can be tried in court.
Under the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, a diplomat’s home country can waive his diplomatic immunity in particularly “egregious” cases. In 1997, the Los Angeles Times reported that former Republic of Georgia diplomat Gueorgui Makharadz, whose nation waived his immunity, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the death of a Maryland teenager in a car crash.
