DAWN TO DUSK NEWS: US dismisses charges against Indian diplomat

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New York (AFP) - A US judge has thrown out charges against an Indian diplomat whose New York arrest and strip-search sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Delhi.</div>
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Devyani Khobragade was arrested on December 12 outside her children's New York school, accused of defrauding her Indian housekeeper's visa application.</div>
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An outraged India claimed full diplomatic immunity on her behalf after Khobragade said she was subjected to a cavity search while in custody.</div>
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Employed at the Indian consulate in New York, she acquired in January the full diplomatic immunity granted to diplomats at the Indian mission to the UN.</div>
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It was on grounds of immunity that she petitioned a US court on January 9 to drop the case.</div>
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US District Judge Shira Scheindlin dismissed the indictment Wednesday on grounds that Khobragade was granted full diplomatic immunity on January 8.</div>
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"Even if Khobragade had no immunity at the time of her arrest and has none now, her acquisition of immunity during the pendency of proceedings mandates dismissal," Scheindlin wrote.</div>
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"Khobragade's conditions of bail are terminated, and her bond is exonerated... It is ordered that any open arrest warrants based on this indictment must be vacated."</div>
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Khobragade in January returned to India in January, leaving behind her two daughters and husband, a US citizen.</div>
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Khobragade told an Indian newspaper of her anguish at being separated from her seven- and four-year-old girls and their father, an academic.</div>
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US prosecutors, disputing her immunity, accused Khobragade of sometimes forcing her Indian maid to work 100-hour weeks, even when sick and often without a day off, for pay as little as $1.22 an hour.</div>
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The diplomatic row between the two countries, which had embraced each other as strategic partners, strained ties and fanned resentment on both sides.</div>
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US dismisses charges against Indian diplomat

New York (AFP) - A US judge has thrown out charges against an Indian diplomat whose New York arrest and strip-search sparked a bitter...