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India’s government said it was “disappointed” by new US charges against an Indian diplomat for visa fraud involving employment of a housekeeper and warned the move could reignite a bitter row between the countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government’s spokesman, Syed Akbaruddin, said India was “disappointed… the United States Department of Justice chose to obtain a second indictment” against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade even though a US judge threw out similar charges earlier this week because she had diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n

“Any measures consequent to this decision in the US will unfortunately impact upon efforts on both sides to build the India-US strategic partnership, to which both sides are committed,” the Indian spokesman warned.<\/p>\n

A New York grand jury on Friday re-indicted the Indian diplomat accused of mistreating her housekeeper on two counts of visa fraud and making false statements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khobragade, who has since returned to India, was arrested on December 12 outside her children’s school and later strip-searched, enraging the Indian government and some of the Indian public.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic row between the two countries, which had embraced each other as strategic partners, strained ties and fanned resentment on both sides.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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