External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, he is hopeful of getting a solution on the charges filed in the US against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade.

Addressing the media in New Delhi Friday afternoon, Khurshid said, steps have been taken to maintain dignity and comfort to the diplomat.

Earlier, the US rejected India's demands of dropping visa fraud charges against senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade and apologising for mistreating her.

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said that Khobragade will have to face the serious allegations and that the immunity sought for her after her transfer to India's Permanent Mission to the UN is not retroactive.

Efforts are on to resolve the raging diplomatic row over the arrest of the diplomat.

The two sides discussed specific steps to resolve the situation during a telephone call made by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman to Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh.

The Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur has said that the safety and dignity of diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the US was the government's top concern.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event in New Delhi on Friday Preneet Kaur said that India was firm in its stand that the cases against her should be withdrawn.

Speaking on the occasion, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said that American authorities had behaved atrociously with the Indian diplomat and the country now needed to make good the damage.