LONDON: Indian government has recalled its senior diplomat in London accused of assaulting his wife, media reports said on Sunday.
Indian officials said Anil Verma, an IAS officer posted as economics minister in the high commission, had been asked to return to India.
Verma`s wife Paromita fled from their Golders Green home in Hampstead with her five-year-old son on December 11 with blood streaming from her nose after being punched.
It is believed that she may request to the UK government for political asylum.
Verma is from the West Bengal cadre and is on deputation at the high commission. He is one of half-a-dozen in the task enjoying “minister” rank below the high commissioner and deputy high commissioner. He was earlier private secretary to the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
A British newspaper quotes a friend of Paromita as saying, ” Anil was furious and started screaming at Paromita, saying, `You and your family think you are smart but I will show you all.
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