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Indian High Commissioners senior diplomat in London, Anil Verma, has been transferred back to India after being accused of beating his wife.Anil Verma, the third senior-most Indian diplomat in the high commission, reportedly claimed diplomatic immunity from prosecution when police arrived to question him following neighbours complaints about his wife beating. News agencies quoted the British Foreign Office saying it did not tolerate diplomats working in Britain breaking the law. London media reports said Vermas wife Paromita and their five-year-old-son have gone into hiding. A vivid account in the Daily Mail said Verma on the night in question flew into a rage over a trivial disagreement with his wife and punched her full in the face, very hard. Paromita has applied for permission to stay on in Britain on humanitarian grounds. She is now separated from her husband after moving out of their home and was quoted saying that she feared he would force her to accompany him to India.
