<p>The daughter of an Indian diplomat has filed a $1.5 million suit against New York City over her arrest on cyberbullying charges - but her suit doesn’t demand the key to the city that her lawyer had asked for.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Krittika Biswas, daughter of Debashish Biswas, vice consul in the Indian consulate general here, claims in court papers that the investigation that led to her arrest in school was a “sham,” lacking any real evidence. <br /><br />The 118-page lawsuit filed Monday in the Manhattan district court also alleges that the honours student was busted on trumped-up charges due to a conspiracy of “race-based animus...against persons of Southeast Asian Indian descent.”<br /><br />The suit, seeking at least $500,000 in compensatory and a million dollars in punitive damages, also impleads 10 others, including New York City’s department of education, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the principal and the teacher concerned of Biswas’ school. <br /><br />Biswas was locked up and suspended from John Bowne High School in Queens last February after she was accused of sending “offensive and sexually threatening” e-mails to her teachers. <br /><br />But the charges were dropped after a male classmate was fingered as the real culprit.<br />Biswas’ lawyer Ravi Batra said last year that getting a key to the city from Mayor Michael Bloomberg could make it clear “that diplomats are welcome in New York".<br /><br />A spokesperson for the city Law Department cited by the New York Post said officials hadn’t yet been served the suit.</p>
<p>The daughter of an Indian diplomat has filed a $1.5 million suit against New York City over her arrest on cyberbullying charges - but her suit doesn’t demand the key to the city that her lawyer had asked for.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Krittika Biswas, daughter of Debashish Biswas, vice consul in the Indian consulate general here, claims in court papers that the investigation that led to her arrest in school was a “sham,” lacking any real evidence. <br /><br />The 118-page lawsuit filed Monday in the Manhattan district court also alleges that the honours student was busted on trumped-up charges due to a conspiracy of “race-based animus...against persons of Southeast Asian Indian descent.”<br /><br />The suit, seeking at least $500,000 in compensatory and a million dollars in punitive damages, also impleads 10 others, including New York City’s department of education, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the principal and the teacher concerned of Biswas’ school. <br /><br />Biswas was locked up and suspended from John Bowne High School in Queens last February after she was accused of sending “offensive and sexually threatening” e-mails to her teachers. <br /><br />But the charges were dropped after a male classmate was fingered as the real culprit.<br />Biswas’ lawyer Ravi Batra said last year that getting a key to the city from Mayor Michael Bloomberg could make it clear “that diplomats are welcome in New York".<br /><br />A spokesperson for the city Law Department cited by the New York Post said officials hadn’t yet been served the suit.</p>