{"id":1080,"date":"2012-03-04T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/04\/us-judge-grants-15-million-as-compensation-to\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:46","slug":"us-judge-grants-15-million-as-compensation-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/03\/04\/us-judge-grants-15-million-as-compensation-to\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge grants $1.5 million as compensation to \u2018enslaved\u2019 Indian maid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1351493487\/us-judge-grants-1-5-million-as-compensation-to-enslaved-indian-maid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1351493487\/us-judge-grants-1-5-million-as-compensation-to-enslaved-indian-maid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/sZeEIIkrQQMSXtMopEpzJjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Shanti Gurung had accused her employer, Neena Malhotra, who at the time was \u201cserving as the Counselor of Press, Culture, Information, Education, and Community Affairs at the Consulate General of India in Manhattan\u201d of slavery. She had come to New York city in 2006 to work as a domestic help, according to court documents.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/world\/us-judge-recommends-1-5-million-to-enslaved-indian-maid-223488.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via firstpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesShanti Gurung had accused her employer, Neena Malhotra, who at the time was \u201cserving as the Counselor of Press, Culture, Information, Education, and Community Affairs at the Consulate General of India in Manhattan\u201d of slavery. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/03\/04\/us-judge-grants-15-million-as-compensation-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1635,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/14\/overlooked-and-cut-loose-by-the-army-veterans\/","url_meta":{"origin":1080,"position":0},"title":"Overlooked and cut loose by the Army, veteran\u2019s life spirals to an end","author":"aslam","date":"June 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesBy last September, the Army had had just about enough of infantryman Jacob Andrews, so it gave him a general discharge and a one-way bus ticket home to Kansas City. 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