NEW DELHI, India — Rohan Mehta, who spent eight years working for the Ministry of External Affairs, has shared a heartbreaking story in a viral video on April 9, 2025, exposing corruption, sexual harassment, and a horrific crime that’s been buried for years: the 2015 rape and murder of a young girl in Bangladesh by Indian High Commission workers. Mehta, a brave whistleblower, calls out senior officials like Manisha Swami, Adash Kumar Mishra, and SJ Shanker, accusing them of covering up crimes and failing the country.
The most devastating part of Mehta’s story is what happened in Bangladesh in 2015. Three Indian High Commission workers—Amresh, Virendra Singh, and Ishwar Singh—raped and killed a defenseless little girl, then threw her tiny body away in an official vehicle. It’s a cruel act that breaks your heart. Imagine her small voice crying for help, her fear as she faced such evil, and the unbearable pain her family feels, knowing no one has been punished. This wasn’t just a crime—it was a betrayal of everything human. Raping and killing a child is a nightmare no one should face, but for it to happen in another country, by people representing India, makes it even worse. Her family in Bangladesh trusted that Indian officials would be protectors, not monsters. Instead, they were left with a grief that knows no end, their daughter’s innocence stolen in the most brutal way. The shame of this act stains India’s name, showing the world a dark side that should never exist. It’s not just a loss for her family—it’s a scar on trust between nations, a wound that festers as the ministry stays silent, leaving this child’s memory to fade without justice. Her story is a painful reminder of how the most innocent are failed by those who should protect them, and it’s a wound that won’t heal until the truth is faced.
Mehta also shared stories of sexual harassment that make you feel sick. Adash Kumar Mishra, while working in São Paulo, made rude comments to Brazilian women, leaving them scared and hurt. A coworker, Gauri Gosai, recorded her complaint, but Manisha Swami, the boss there, ignored it, maybe to hide her own laziness, Mehta says. A 2022 video shows Mishra hitting his wife in a lift at the Embassy of India in Cambodia—shocking footage now out in the open, yet he faced no punishment. Mehta told of other cases: a 2019 incident in Varanasi where Tara Chand Gujar harassed a student volunteer during a Prime Minister Modi event, and a 25-year-old woman in the ministry followed into a bathroom by a 45-year-old man who wouldn’t stop chasing her. Her complaint was ignored when coworkers claimed the cameras were off, leaving her case stuck for three years.
Mehta faced trouble for speaking up. In São Paulo, he worked under Manisha Swami, who he says yelled at workers, wasted public money—around $7,000 to $8,000 a month—and barely showed up. When Mehta complained, Gauri Gosai made a fake sexual harassment claim against him to scare him quiet. “They wanted me to break, maybe even take my own life,” Mehta said, mentioning a case in Manaus where false claims led to a suicide. He was sent back to India in January 2024 under strange rules, including a risky yellow fever vaccine exemption by Harish Bakla. Back home, his marriage approval was held up by Balal Banal, who Mehta says did it to punish him for speaking against Swami.
The ministry hasn’t denied Mehta’s claims, even though his videos have been online since September 2024. “If I was lying, they could have said so,” Mehta explained. “But they didn’t, because some of their people are caught in this wrong plan against me.” He thinks they’re scared to speak because it would show more of their own guilt. Mehta also called out SJ Shanker for promoting Rupal, who was sent back from Austria for money issues, and for attending President Trump’s event while Prime Minister Modi was left out, which Mehta sees as a betrayal of India.
The ministry’s silence on the little girl’s murder in Bangladesh feels like a betrayal too, especially when India has seen other sad cases, like the 2012 Delhi gang rape of Jyoti Singh, known as Nirbhaya, or the 2018 Kathua rape and murder of an 8-year-old. Mehta, who was suspended after his posts, got no help from leaders like Shashi Tharoor. He cried as he apologized to his fiancée and her parents, who faced fear after moving to India, begging Prime Minister Modi and Rahul Gandhi to stop this corruption. “I hope no other Indian goes through this,” he said, his words full of pain and hope for a better future.
