have been brought to the table in the processing of the arrest. reporter: the cause of the arrest according to these documents, allegations that she falsified a visa application about how much she paid her housekeeper. prosecutors claim the housekeeper was over worked and paid less than $3.31 an hour. reporter: she pleaded not guilty and has been released on bail. officials in india are now demanding she be allowed to return home. reporter: she worked here at the indian consulate in new york city and sent an e-mail to her colleagues thanking them for their support. the controversy has reached the highest levels of the u.s. government with president obama being briefed and u.s. secretary of state john kerry expressing his regret and saying the situation should have been handled more delicately. reporter: but kerry s statement seems to have made no difference to people here in india who are still outraged. many say they won t be satisfied until the u.s. accepts its fault and issu
firing back, removing just take a look right there removing security barriers outside the u.s. embassy. pamela brown is here with much more on this. what s going on, pamela? officials in india seem to be more outraged over how the diplomat was arrested than why, calling the treatment barbaric. they are taking action and protest against the u.s. in several different ways. meantime, american officials acknowledging this diplomatic dispute is a, quote, sensitive issue. watch as police remove the concrete security barriers in front of the u.s. embassy in new delhi. newspapers in india reporting the government is behind the anti-u.s. protest. why? retaliation sparked by an arrest of this indian diplomat in new york city. according to this criminal complaint, a deputy consul general severely underpaid her babysitter, paying her $3.31 per
complaint khobragade severely underpaid her babysitter only paying her $3.31 an hour, far less than minimum wage. the complaint also alleges the diplomat worked her babysitter far more than the 40 hours per week, allegedly without overtime pay and then lied about all this on visa documents, a violation of u.s. law. my daughter has not done anything wrong. she has nothing to do with the visa process. reporter: state department diplomatic authority arrested her after she dropped her daughter off to school. her lawyer says she pleaded not dpilty. her arrest sparked outrage among indian officials, some calling her treatment barbaric, one even calling for the partners of gay u.s. diplomats in india to be arrested, the country recently banned gay sex. what the government of india can do immediately is to cancel those visas, arrest all these
locking up of an end dan diplomat in new york is escalating on several fronts. let s start in india. they re now retaliating against u.s. officials in new delhi. the fact this high ranking indian woman is strip searched is most disturbing to the people of india. she is accused of visa fraud after allegedly submitting false documents to ob it taken a work visa for her nanny. pam brown has more on the backlash abroad. watch as police remove the concrete security barriers in front of the u.s. embassy in new delhi. newspapers in india reporting the government is the behind the anti-u.s. protest. why? retaliation sparked by an arrest of this indian diplomat in new york city. dev vanny khobragade. according to this criminal complaint, cobra go ahead severely underpaid her baby-sitter only paying her $3.31 an hour.
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