New York,May 9: The daughter of an Indian diplomat who was wrongly accused of sending threatening e-mails to a teacher last year is suing the city for $1.5 million.
Krittika Biswas, 19, is seeking damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution, according to a lawsuit brought Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.
The lawsuit says that Biswas was so traumatized by the incident that she left the country.
She is now pursuing college studies in science and engineering in her native India.
"I was very broken down after this," Biswas said a year ago when she announced her intention to sue.
"One of my friends asked me, 'Aren't you shameful. You got arrested?' So I was like, 'I didn't do anything,'" she said.
Her arrest for cyberbullying her math teacher took place at John Bowne High School in Flushing, where she was an honors student. At the time, her father was vice consul of the Indian Consulate in New York.
Biswas was dragged out of the school in handcuffs and spent the night in jail.
The next day, the charges were dropped.
The lawsuit says another student admitted sending the e-mails but he was never arrested.
The court papers say that even though the criminal case was dismissed, school officials still suspended Biswas, sending her to another school that was "akin to a reform school."
City lawyers said they could not comment because they had not seen the lawsuit.
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