The US today 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.