London, June 10 :    London, June 10:  Devyani Rana, the woman at the centre of the Nepal drama, is 'totally innocent' and in no way responsible for the murderous behaviour of her boyfriend, the late Crown Prince Dipendra, according to reports emerging from London. A friend of the Scindia family, to which Devyani belongs on her Indian side, has spoken for the first time, providing what seems to be an authoritative account of her current mental condition. Devyani is the niece of senior Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia and his BJP-supporting sister, Vasundhara. Another sister, Usharaje, is Devyani's mother, who is married to the Oxford-educated Pashupati Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a former finance and foreign minister of Nepal. Although there has been speculation that Devyani had been moved to either London or somewhere in Russia, the friend of the Scindia family, who asked not be identified, said she was being looked after by the Scindia family in India. Some measure of protection was also being given to Devyani by the Indian authorities because it was felt her life could be in danger. 'She is being hounded by the press and is in no position to talk to anyone,' said the source. 'They want to be left alone. The whole thing has deeper implications. It is not just about a boy and girl in love.' When Devyani heard about the palace massacre, 'she went hysterical. She has had to be sedated. The girl has nearly had a breakdown'. On the day before the killings, there had been yet another argument between Dipendra and his mother, the late Queen Aishwarya, whose intransigence is being seen by the Scindias and their friends as partly to blame for the tragedy. 'No one really knows why Dipendra snapped.' According to the account that has emerged in London - and this appears to be the best sourced so far - the argument between mother and son ended abruptly. 'She told him to go upstairs to his room.' It appears that Dipendra felt deeply humiliated. 'You don't say that to a man of 29 in front of so many people.' The Queen is being painted by the Scindia clan in a not very flattering light. 'Dipendra was petrified of her. She even controlled her own husband.' The Scindias are perplexed that the Queen found Devyani unacceptable, given that the royal families of India and Nepal are so-intermingled through marriage. The source spoke highly of Devyani: 'She is not a society girl. She was not manipulative.' The relationship between her and Dipendra was a long-standing one. 'They met at a very, very young age through mutual friends. He fell for her. Since then he has wanted to marry her. It is a sort of Romeo and Juliet story. This has been going on for a long time. 'It had reached the stage where the girl's side said, 'forget about getting the Queen's permission, she will never agree. Run away and get married. Just elope and get married.' The girl's side has been very supportive throughout.' Whether Devyani meant it or not, she is supposed to have offered to part from the Crown Prince as she did not want to be held responsible for the rift in the Nepalese royal family. 'But he said, 'Nothing doing'. In fact, he wanted a ....' The source thought for a moment and indicated that Dipendra wanted to make a point by having a 'big wedding'. Another friend of the wealthy Scindia family reflected their anger at being made to feel socially inferior by Queen Aishwarya.