A social media user claims that a 19-year-old Indian college student from Tokyo visits the Indian Embassy in Tokyo for a visa renewal and gets raped by an Indian staff member inside.
Fact Check:
After investigating further, it was revealed that no such incident had taken place recently, making the claim false. Although an incident happened in 2006, in which a Japanese girl was molested by an Indian Embassy worker. Under Article Nine of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations allows a host country to declare a diplomatic staff member of a foreign mission persona non grata or any other member of the mission ‘not acceptable’ without specifying reasons and obliges the sending country to recall or terminate the duties of the staff member so named, resulting in the termination of his job. According to a news report by The Hindustan Times, when contacted, an official from the Indian External Affairs Ministry declined to comment.
Conclusion:
This is untrue because there has never been an instance of this kind. The user is brutally fabricating an outdated case as today’s.
