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| Devyani Khobragade case: US embassy |
| Devyani Khobragade case: US embassy asked to shut its club, follow traffic rules
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| INDIA
, 8-January-2014
3:14:59 AM |
| India today asked the American embassy in New Delhi to stop all commercial activities and shut down a club on its premises by January 16, continuing its unrelenting diplomatic offensive against the US over the arrest of diplomat Devyani Khobragade.
All US embassy and diplomats' cars will also be firmly dealt with under local traffic rules and policemen have been ordered to make no exception.
The embassy has been told to shut down a club within the premises which includes a bar, pool, parlor, restaurant, bowling alley and tennis court. Outsiders are allowed in the club, a violation of the Vienna Convention that India is no longer prepared to ignore, said officials.
This comes on top of a slew of retaliatory measures taken by India to mount pressure on the US to drop charges against Devyani Khobragade, who was arrested in New York last month for alleged visa fraud and subjected to a humiliating strip search.
US diplomats in consulates across India were ordered to give back identity cards that came with special privileges. American diplomats were also stripped off airport passes and import clearances. Barricades outside the sprawling US embassy in the capital were also removed.
India has sought an apology and asked the US to withdraw the charges against the 39-year-old diplomat.
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