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| Devyani Khobragade: India seeks US official's withdrawal | |
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| India has asked the US to withdraw an official from its embassy in Delhi in a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York. | |
| Devyani Khobragade is flying home after she was ordered to leave the US having been indicted on criminal charges. | |
| She was arrested in New York last month on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper. | |
| India demanded an apology after she was handcuffed and strip-searched, and has refused to waive her immunity. | |
| Ms Khobragade has always denied any wrongdoing. | |
| Diplomatic reprisals | |
| Some local reports say Washington has been asked to withdraw a diplomat of a "similar rank" as Ms Khobragade from its Delhi mission. | |
| Others quote an unnamed government official as saying the US official was involved in the case relating to Ms Khobragade - although this is yet to be confirmed. | |
| The US embassy has not commented so far. | |
| Ms Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, was arrested after a complaint from her maid, Sangeeta Richard. | |
| Ms Khobragade in turn accused Ms Richard of theft and attempted blackmail. | |
| On Thursday, US officials said they had accepted India's request to accredit Ms Khobragade to the UN, which confers broader immunity than that enjoyed by a consular official. | |
| Washington then asked the Indian government to waive the immunity but India refused, so the US then "requested her departure", US officials said. | |
| Delhi said it was "shocked and appalled" at the manner of her arrest, and ordered a series of diplomatic reprisals against the US. | |
| Security barricades around the US embassy in the capital were removed and a visiting US delegation was snubbed by senior Indian politicians and officials. | |
| On Wednesday, the embassy was ordered to stop "commercial activities on its premises". India also said that embassy cars could be penalised for traffic offences. | |
| The embassy has been told to shut down a club within its premises which includes a pool, restaurant and tennis court, NDTV news channel said. |