'India shocked, appalled by US treatment of its diplomat'

December 13, 2013 16:52

India says it is shocked and appalled by what the US has done to its diplomat in New York and is forcefully taking up with the US the treatment meted out to arrested diplomat which is not acceptable.

Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general for political, economic, commercial and women's affairs, Consulate General of India, New York, was arrested on Thursday morning for allegedly presenting fraudulent documents to the United States State Department in support of a visa application for an Indian national employed as a babysitter and housekeeper at Khobragade's home in Manhattan.

The arrest of Khobragade, 39, was announced by Preet Bharara, US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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