Washington, Jan 10
Indian diplomat Devyanni Khobragade, whose arrest in the US sparked protests from India, has been formally indicted by a US grand jury.
However, prosecutors said that Khobragade, 39, had also been granted immunity and that US officials had asked her to leave the country, BBC reported Friday.
She was arrested Dec 12 in New York for alleged visa fraud and underpaying her nanny Sangeeta Richard. India sought a US apology for her "humiliation", which included a strip-search.
On Thursday, prosecutors initially said Khobragade had already left but were later told by her lawyer that she was still in the US.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said in a statement that they "had been advised by the State Department that, pursuant to their request, Devyani Khobragade was to have left the United States this afternoon".
by:IANS