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US hides behind "standard procedures" in Indian diplomat's arrest

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Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) As media reports that Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was "strip-searched" after her arrest in New York threatened to escalate a diplomatic row between the two countries; the US suggested it had merely followed "standard procedures." While "no comment" was forthcoming from the Indian side about these reports, attributed to unnamed sources about Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, the US State Department sought to pass the buck to the justice ...

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