New Delhi: The arrest of Indian deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade in New York has caused a major diplomatic row.
Khobragade was arrested last week on the street of New York while she was dropping her daughter to school and was handcuffed in public. She was strip-searched and made to stand with common criminals and drug addicts by the police.
She has been accused of lying on the visa application for an Indian national Sangeeta Richard, who worked at her home from November 2012 to June 2013 for less than four dollars an hour.
According to the 11-page criminal complaint in her A-3 visa application for her domestic help, Sangeeta Richard alleged she worked far more than 40 hours a week and was paid less than $9.75 per hour as had been agreed to in a contract she had signed with. Khobragade for her visa application.
