Senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was charged with visa fraud and making false statements last week. She was strip-searched and locked in a cell with drug addicts and also subjected to DNA swabbing. This has trigged uproar in India and the Government had decided to settle the issue with US diplomats to register their protest regarding the ill treatment to its Envoy.
1. Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi refused to meet a visiting US congressional delegation.
2. Government withdrew airport passes for all US diplomatic staff.
3. It is decided that all traffic barricades near the US embassy on Nyaya Marg in Delhi except the picket will be removed immediately
4. All import clearances for the US embassy, including liquor, are now stopped.
5. Government has also asked US to return all ID cards issued to their consular officers posted in the
