Washigton: With the bitter India-U.S. row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat defused with her departure for India, both sides are hoping to bring the "important" relationship back on track in the weeks ahead.

One sentiment encountered during the discussions to work out a deal over the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, India's then deputy consul general in New York was that this was a mess-up that should not have happened, knowledgeable sources said. "We need to work together to see that these things don't happen again," these sources said suggesting that "big picture guys" in the U.S. diplomatic establishment apparently failed to stop in time the "sectoral bureaucracy" that chose to criminalise what was essentially a civil dispute.

Khobragade, 39, left for India Thursday hours after informing a U.S. court in New York that the U.S. State department had approved her accreditation as counsellor at India's permanent mission at the United Nations to accord her full diplomatic immunity.

Meanwhile as a federal grand jury in New York Thursday indicted Khobragade on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper and nanny, Sangeeta Richard, whom she brought from India, the U.S. asked New Delhi to waive her immunity.
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