DHAKA: A leading advocacy organisation representing over three million Indian-Americans in the US has strongly condemned the arrest procedures of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.

The US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) said it found the comments of state department spokeswoman Marie Harf justifying her strip-search as ‘particularly offensive’.

It also quoted its chairman Sanjay Puri as saying they were making enquiries about the arrest procedures of Khobragade and that concurred with the general sentiments of members ‘that failure in diplomatic protocol can cause irreversible damage to US-India relations’, reports The Times of India.

In a statement on Tuesday, the USINPAC that works on issues that concern the community, said it ‘strongly condemns the arrest procedures undertaken by the US marshal service and the state department’s diplomatic security officials in last week’s arrest of Devyani Khobragade, the deputy consul general of India, in New York City’.

BDST: 2032 HRS, DEC 18, 2013
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor