Diplomat Issue: U.S. Talks To India, PM Asks For Full Resolution

New Delhi: Concerned over the anger in India at the humiliating treatment meted out to Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, top U.S.  officials engaged in talks with Indian diplomats to find a resolution to the row.

Close on the heels of U.S.  Secretary of State John Kerry calling up National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon to express regret over the mess-up, U.S.  Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman called up Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh during which they discussed specific steps to resolve the situation.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has termed as "deplorable" the humiliating arrest, strip and cavity search that Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, was put through, is learnt to have directed officials to ensure "full resolution" of the issue, sources said.

India has demanded that Khobragade be released unconditionally and all charges against her dropped. She has been charged with visa fraud and underpaying her house maid. She has denied the charges.

India also stuck to its demand that the U.S.  must tender an unconditional apology for the humiliating treatment meted out to the envoy.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath Thursday said that to satisfy India the U.S.  will have to apologise and admit their mistake.

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