<p>The Home Ministry has asked the Karnataka Police to approach the French Consul General in Banglaore to get access to Pascal Mazurier, a diplomat of that country's diplomatic mission who is accused of raping his daughter.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Official sources said Mazurier is now taking shelter at the French Consulate General in Bangalore and has not come out of the complex.<br /><br />Since the diplomatic mission is a French property, police so far have not been able to enter it and hence no action has been taken against him.<br /><br />"We have asked the Karnataka Police to approach the French Consul General to get access to Mazurier," a source said.<br /><br />Police have registered a case of rape against Mazurier.Meanwhile, External Affairs Ministry sources said Mazurier, Deputy Head of Chancery in the Consulate of France, Bangalore, "holds a service passport and not a diplomatic passport" and does not have diplomatic immunity. He can be tried in India, they said.<br /><br />The child's mother Suja Jones Mazurier, an Indian, reported the case to police with the help of a Bangalore-based NGO after her maid told her that her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, was allegedly sexually abused.<br /><br />Suja had in a letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna also appealed to the government to ensure that the official faces trial in India. </p>
<p>The Home Ministry has asked the Karnataka Police to approach the French Consul General in Banglaore to get access to Pascal Mazurier, a diplomat of that country's diplomatic mission who is accused of raping his daughter.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Official sources said Mazurier is now taking shelter at the French Consulate General in Bangalore and has not come out of the complex.<br /><br />Since the diplomatic mission is a French property, police so far have not been able to enter it and hence no action has been taken against him.<br /><br />"We have asked the Karnataka Police to approach the French Consul General to get access to Mazurier," a source said.<br /><br />Police have registered a case of rape against Mazurier.Meanwhile, External Affairs Ministry sources said Mazurier, Deputy Head of Chancery in the Consulate of France, Bangalore, "holds a service passport and not a diplomatic passport" and does not have diplomatic immunity. He can be tried in India, they said.<br /><br />The child's mother Suja Jones Mazurier, an Indian, reported the case to police with the help of a Bangalore-based NGO after her maid told her that her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, was allegedly sexually abused.<br /><br />Suja had in a letter to Home Minister P Chidambaram and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna also appealed to the government to ensure that the official faces trial in India. </p>