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Devyani Khobragade Case: No special treatment to US diplomats at airports

New Delhi: US diplomats and their families in India will not be able to avail special treatment at airports from tonight when the deadline expires for surrendering their special passes, as part of the government's

It has also stopped all import clearances, including liquor for the US embassy. The traffic barricades near the US embassy on Nyaya Marg in New Delhi were also removed.

39-year-old Khobragade, a 1999-batch IFS officer posted as Deputy Consul General in New York, was taken into custody last week on visa fraud charges as she was dropping her daughter to school before being released on a USD 250,000 bond after pleading not guilty in court.

Khobragade was put through both strip and cavity searches, procedures normally used for criminals, evoking a sharp reaction from India.

She was transferred to India's Permanent Mission to UN to give her fuller diplomatic immunity on Wednesday.

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