The US has been asked to provide the tax returns filed by it with Indian authorities for the commercial activities which are afforded through ACSA to non-diplomatic persons including expatriate American citizens and their families as well as well-connected Indians close to the embassy.

Indian authorities have cited the provision of such commercial facilities to non-diplomats as a violation of article 41(3) of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961.

This stipulates that "the premises of the mission must not be used in any manner incompatible with the functions of the mission as laid down in the present Convention..."

It is also understood that US diplomatic vehicles will now attract penalties for all traffic related offences such as unauthorized parking, red light jumping and dangerous driving.

The Americans are "generous" in interpreting international conventions when it relates to them and very "stingy" when it comes to others, said a diplomatic source familiar with the chain of events related to former U.S.-based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.

India's then deputy consul general in New York was arrested Dec 12 when she went to drop her child to school. She was strip-searched and accused of visa fraud.
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