A growing diplomatic row over the arrest and strip-searching of a top Indian diplomat in the United States has escalated further, with Indian police removing security barriers from the outskirts of the US Embassy.
The concrete barricades were intended to keep vehicles from ramming the embassy compound, and were dragged away by police tow trucks earlier today. The embassy remains surrounded by a high wall.
The State Department says it has warned India that it expects them to guarantee the security of the embassy, and declined comment on the “sensitive” issues India is complaining about.
India’s National Security Adviser condemned the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, the deputy consul general in New York, saying it was “barbaric.” She was accused of submitting false documents for the work visa of her housekeeper.
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Hooray for India removing the barricades. Now they ought to "tear down that wall" around the embassy.
You ever get the feeling the United States is like a drunk stumbling around the city at 5AM trying to find a bar willing to let him have just one more drink?
India has a caste system that the United States does not. She wanted special privledges. She wants to exploit people in the US. I do not support the importation of economic injustice. Its a rich woman writing emails. Too bad, she got caught. Somebody call the whambulance.
India has a caste system. Its a rich woman committing a crime while exploiting a woman in the United States. Somebody call this woman a’whambulance’.