But no response was received from the US side for any of these communications, the embassy said and instead Khobragade was arrested on Dec 12.
The State Department spokesperson Marie Harf, however, still asserted that the arrest should not have come as a surprise as it had notified the Indian embassy on Sep 4 about the allegations against Khobragade.
The Indian mission, she told reporters Wednesday, was advised as part of "State Department policy to advise foreign missions of allegations made involving a member of a mission or a family member."
But the State Department advice was "entirely separate from the law enforcement process that is an important one of looking into these allegations."
"And then if the Department of Justice and the Southern District of New York think there should be charges brought, obviously that's a totally separate process," she said.
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