The United States has regretted that India felt it necessary to expel an American diplomat after senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade was asked to leave the country following her indictment in a visa fraud case. The State Department spokesman Jen Psaki said in Washington yesterday that this has clearly been a challenging time in the US-India
relationship. She said Washington hopes that this will now come to closure and the India will now take significant steps with the US to improve our relationship and return it to a more
constructive place.

Earlier in the day yesterday, India expelled a senior American diplomat within hours of Devyani being asked to leave the US.