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When Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade arrived at her daughters’ school on West 97th Street in Manhattan on December 12th last year, she expected to drop off her children as usual for the day. Instead, she was picked up by agents from the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, and then arrested, strip-searched and charged with visa fraud relating to Sangeeta Richard, who worked as Khobragade’s nanny – illegally as it turned out in terms of both her papers and her pay.
