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Devyani Khobragade is an Indian Foreign Service officer and a medical doctor who until December 18, 2013, was deputy consul general in the Consulate General of India in New York. She joined Indian Foreign Service in 1999. In her capacity of deputy consul general for India, she handled women's affairs as well as political and economic issues.
Devyani Khobragade is a central civil servant of Indian Foreign Service cadre. She was in the news after being charged with visa fraud when she was posted in the Indian Consul in New York City in the United States.
As Khobragade, an officer of the Indian Foreign Service, was checked into custody, she was strip-searched. The incident precipitated the worst crisis in India-US relations in recent years.
Oct 1, 2020 · IFS officer Devyani Uttam Khobragade was in the headlines for weeks in December 2013 after US authorities charged her with visa fraud and arrested her. The incident triggered a major diplomatic row between the Indian and US governments.
Dec 16, 2013 · On December 12, Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general for political, economic, commercial, and women’s affairs in New York, was arrested on charges of committing fraud in the United States visa application for her maid, Sangeeta Richard.
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Dec 19, 2013 · The US complaint: According to the complaint against her in the US,Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade had first struck a verbal agreement with Sangeeta Richard and then signed two successive contracts,with a different wage specified in each.
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Dec 19, 2013 · 19 December 2013. Press Trust of India. By Tara McKelvey. BBC News. Deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade was arrested in New York on suspicion of visa fraud. Can she claim diplomatic...
