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Diplo daughter’s ‘keyed’ up

BULLY FOR YOU: Krittika Biswas is suing the city for $1.5 million and, rather oddly, a key to the city. (Daniel Shapiro)

A Queens honors student and daughter of a high-level Indian diplomat says she was arrested and suspended from high school for a crime she didn’t commit — cyber-bullying her teachers — and now she wants $1.5 million and a key to the city to make things right.

John Bowne HS senior Krittika Biswas was paraded out of school in handcuffs Feb. 8 before spending 28 hours in a dank cell at Queens Central Booking.

Although charges against her were dropped and her record expunged by the Queens district attorney, school officials insisted on booting the brainy 18-year-old to a suspension center for more than a month.

The male classmate finally identified by Principal Howard Kwait as the culprit avoided arrest because the school declined to press charges.

“I was walked out of school in handcuffs in front of everybody,” Biswas said at a press conference at City Hall yesterday.

“I was very broken down after this,” added Biswas, the daughter of the vice consul at the Consulate General of India in Manhattan, Debashish Biswas.

The e-mails in question were sexually explicit, with disturbing references to incest, rape and prostitution.

Among the few printable phrases is “You damned disgusting bastard . . . Burn in hell!”

Family lawyer Ravi Batra says the school bungled basic elements of its probe by misunderstanding how to read Internet Protocol addresses — which pinpoint an e-mail’s origin — and by using circumstantial evidence.

Among the clues used against her was that Biswas was the only student in both teachers’ classes, that she speaks French and one of the e-mails used a French curse word, and that she had complained about the instruction level of one of the teachers on Facebook.

However, officials apparently ignored the fact that Biswas had asked that same teacher for a college recommendation letter while the flurry of nasty e-mails was ongoing.

“It’s stupid, it’s criminally stupid, and it doesn’t say much about our disciplinary system in the schools,” said Batra. “The incompetence level that was functioning at John Bowne HS is beyond pathetic.”

He added that because the “unbelievable insult” was being relayed throughout diplomatic circles, Mayor Bloomberg could smooth things over by giving Biswas a key to the city.

“This would be a clear signal by the mayor . . . that diplomats are welcome in New York,” said Batra.

The city’s Law Department said it would evaluate the case “thoroughly” once the notice of claim was formally served.

Additional reporting by Ikimulisa Livingston

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