The Indian deputy consul general stationed in New York, Devyani Khobragade, was arrested in December 2013 for submitting false documents to acquire a work visa to allow her housekeeper to stay in the United States, and for paying her housekeeper much less than minimum wage.

The subsequent reports that Ms. Khobragade was strip-searched after her arrest incited outrage across India. Gardiner Harris reports in his New York Times article that the day after the diplomat’s arrest, the Indian government delivered a statement saying it was “shocked and appalled at the manner in which she has been humiliated by the U.S. authorities.” Nancy Powell, the U.S. ambassador to India, was further called by the Indian foreign secretary, Sujatha Singh, who protested Ms. Khobragade’s treatment.

Ms. Khobragade was granted full diplomatic immunity on January 8, but was then indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan on the January 9 on the charges for which she was arrested as well as on allegations of attempting to coerce her housekeeper into silence and of lying to Indian courts. The Indian government denied the United States’ request to waive Ms. Khobragade’s immunity and she was allowed to return to India, where she was given a post at the Foreign Ministry in Delhi.

The U.S. government announced soon after Ms. Khobragade arrived in India on January 10 that, at the request of the Indian government, it would recall a U.S. diplomat from India.

Tensions between the United States and India are high, and are not expected to cool quickly.