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Devyani Khobragade Case: The case of the missing Indian housemaid

Washington: Where is Sangeeta Richards, the nanny at the centre of the controversy surrounding the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York, that has sparked a major diplomatic row between India and the US?According

India TV News Desk Updated on: December 20, 2013 6:39 IST
Know the timeline of Devyani Khobragade row

In February 2012, a New York City Magistrate Judge fined Neena Malhotra, a former press counsellor, $1.5 million for allegedly forcing an under-aged Indian girl, Shanti Gurung, to work without pay and meting out "barbaric treatment" to her.

She has appealed against the verdict but has not returned to the US.

There have been other cases of diplomats being prosecuted for underpaying domestic workers too.

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