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Devyani humiliated: India retaliates, import facilities for US diplomats revoked, security barriers removed

New Delhi: India today hit back at the United States with a series of counter-measures against US diplomats based in India, consequent to the public humiliation of Indian deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade in New



The NSA is known to have described the treatment meted out to Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, as "barbaric" and "despicable", a source told IANS.
 
Khobragade was strip searched, confined to a cell with drug addicts and also subjected to DNA swabbing, sources confirmed to IANS.

Devyani Khobragade, a diplomat enjoying immunity under the Vienna Convention, was publicly handcuffed by New York police, packed off inside a police car, strip-searched in custody, and kept inside a lockup with sex workers, drug addicts and common criminals.

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