An online White House petition demanding the Obama Administration drop the visa fraud case against Devyani Khobragade has been launched in Washington by a group of Indian-Americans.

The online petition said the senior Indian diplomat's public humiliation hurts the sentiments of the community as she is one of the faces of Indian government for the Indian community in the US. It also said the incident is bound to strain the Indo-US relations and the criminal case against her should be dropped immediately.

Meanwhile, the former Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao said the treatment meted out to Devyani Khobragade was wrong, disproportionate, and shocking in extreme and condemnable.