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.