India to Pursue Violation Of Visa, Tax Status By U.S. School

However, MEA is still awaiting response on the information sought in December last year on visa and other details of all the teachers at these schools and their salaries along with the bank account details of their Indian staff members.

 India had, in 1973, granted "tax exempted status" to 16 teachers of the school. However, as per information available with the government, there were many more teachers who were working but not shown as such.

However, in response, the US State Department said the school "is not run by the Embassy (and) only about a third of the students there are American".

India initiated a slew of initiatives in retaliation against the arrest and strip-search of its senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade, a 39-year-old 1999-batch IFS officer, on December 12 in New York on charges of visa fraud.

Though, the first indictment against her was rejected by the US Court, the prosecutors have filed a second indictment in the matter earlier this month.

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