From VOA Learning English,this is In the News.This week, a lawyer for an Indian diplomatasked a court in the United States to dismissimmigration and employment charges against her.Devyani Khobragade served as Deputy Counsel Generalat India's consulate in New York City.She is accused of making false statementswhen she sought permission to bring an Indian nationalto the US to serve as her housekeeper.She also is charged with paying the womanless than the lowest wage permitted under US law.The case has angered a lot of people in Indiaand led to anti-American demonstrations.The dispute began when US policearrested Ms. Khobragade last monthafter she dropped off her daughter at school.Police searched the 39-year-old diplomatfor weapons possibly hidden inside her clothing.They forced her to wear handcuffs.Later, she was jailed in a room with drug suspects.Ms. Khobragade was released after a court appearance.The judge agreed to free the diplomatin exchange for her promise to return for trialand a bail payment of $250,000.Ms. Khobragade told the court she was not guilty of the charges.She is accused of paying the housekeeperless than two dollars an hourand making her work as many as 100 hours a week.In official documents, she promisedto pay $4,500 in monthly wages to the housekeeper.Instead, the woman received only $537 a month.Some Indians have described the diplomat's treatmentby police as shameful.Salman Khurshid is India's Foreign Minister."We feel a very extreme level of distressin terms of human element that is involved."Another official, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde,cancelled his meeting with a five-member US congressional delegation.But the diplomatic dispute did not end there.The Indian government asked the US embassy to withdraw one of its officers.It also removed security barriers from outside the embassy,ordered a suspension of some diplomatic activities,and took back airport passes.An American law professor says India's government has overreacted.Thomas McDonnell teaches at Pace University Law School."The idea of removing the concrete barriersin front of our embassy that protect our ambassadorand other officials from a terrorist attackseems extraordinarily out of proportion."US officials say New York policefollowed standard rules in making the arrest.One question is whether Devyani Khobragadehad special rights as a diplomat.But a State Department official saidshe did not have the top level of diplomatic immunity.American media and other groups have been following the case.Jo Becker works for Human Rights Watch."The diplomat has been charged with a felonyand there has been a big uproar over her treatment.But the controversy had completely overshadowedthe exploitation of her employeeand similar abuses against millions of domestic workersthat happen worldwide every single day".Ms. Becker noted that Secretary of State John Kerrycalled a top Indian official to express regret over the incident.Yet US officials say the charges against Ms. Khobragadewill not be dropped, and that she would face them if she returns.And that's In The News from VOA Learning English.