December 2013: Devyani Khobragade, Deputy Consul General at the Indian Consulate in New York, was reportedly arrested on December 12 on the street while she was dropping her daughter to school.
She was arrested on the orders of Indian-born Preet Bharara, Manhattan's top federal prosecutor, who said Khobragade had presented false documents for the woman who worked as a babysitter and housekeeper at her home in New York from November to June this year. She was strip searched and was made to stand with common criminals and drug addicts by the NewYork police.
Government of India and the Indian community in the United States have strongly condemned the arrest and this barbaric treatment to her.
