Devyani Khobragade Incident Has Developed Closer Ties With India: U.S.

"Have we learned anything from that, both the U.S. and India in the aftermath of that and can we put those lessons to use to avoid this kind of a friction in the future?" she asked.

Ms Khobragade, a 1999 India Foreign Service officer and mother of two daughters has now returned to India. However, the U.S. has still not withdrawn the allegations against her.

Both Ms Khobragade and the Indian Government has denied those charges.

"Indo-U.S. ties were strained in December 2013 when the U.S. arrested Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for underpaying her Indian maid while serving at the Indian consulate in New York," Lisa Curtis of The Heritage Foundation said.

She said the details of Ms Khobragade's arrest, particularly reports that she was handcuffed in front of her children's school and strip-searched while in detention, infuriated the Indian public.

"Washington, for its part, was taken aback by the fierce Indian reaction, which included withdrawing diplomatic privileges for US diplomats and removing security barriers at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi," she said.

"The BJP's assumption of power offers an opportunity to move beyond the Khobragade episode and revive ties by focusing on building cooperation on defence, security, economic and trade, counterterrorism, and other issues of mutual concern," she said.

The previous BJP-led government (1998-2004) was instrumental in elevating ties between Washington and New Delhi and in laying a solid foundation for a strategic partnership, she added.