India has just been going through a lot of travails with regard to rape and treatment of women, so they are hypersensitive on the question, and the treatment of the diplomate here does sound excessive.
Via NY Post:
Outraged protesters burned photos of President Obama outside the US Embassy in New Delhi on Wednesday over the arrest and strip-search of an Indian diplomat in New York for allegedly mistreating her nanny.
The demonstrators cheered the Indian government’s sanctions against the US over the arrest of Devyani Khobragade, 39, which included the removal of concrete security barriers outside the embassy and a threatened crackdown on US diplomats.
“It was very good that the government removed the barriers yesterday. Until the USA says sorry, we should not give any security at all to the Americans,” cried Gaurav Khattar, 33, one of about three dozen protestors, some wearing masks mocking Obama and sarongs made from US flags.
