Devyani Khobragade seeks waiver from attending Pre-Trial Process in Nanny Scandal

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said something will happen for an early resolution of the stand-off arising out of the arrest of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US.

As India and the US continued to make efforts to resolve the issue, the diplomat Khobragade has sought waiver from attending the pre-trial process. A decision on her plea will be known tomorrow. Khobragade has since been transferred as Counsellor in the Indian Mission to the UN to give her full diplomatic immunity.

On the US State Department welcoming his remarks on Indo-US ties, he said, they must do something. Welcoming is not enough.

Khurshid had termed the US as a valuable partner emphasising that both sides need to preserve the extremely exceptionally valuable relations.
39-year-old Khobragade, a 1999-batch IFS officer posted as Deputy Consul General in New York, was taken into custody last week on visa fraud charges.

India had demanded that the case against Khobragade be dropped unconditionally but it was rejected by the US.

Meanwhile, the deadline for the US diplomats and families in India to turn-in their IDs will expire tomorrow, with government not extending it.

It was among the measures taken by India to downgrade privileges of US diplomats in the country after Khobragade was arrested and put through both strip and cavity searches, procedures normally used for criminals.