AAA Dec. 18, 2013 3:12 PM ET India diplomat in US is transferred to UN mission By CARA ANNA and NIRMALA GEORGEBy CARA ANNA and NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press This Dec. 8, 2013 photo shows Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general, during the India Studies Stony Brook University fund raiser event at Long Island, New York. The Indian diplomat said U.S. authorities subjected her to a strip search, cavity search and DNA swabbing following her arrest on visa charges in New York City, despite her "incessant assertions of immunity." The case has sparked widespread outrage in India and infuriated the government, which revoked privileges for U.S. diplomats to protest her treatment. AP Photo/Mohammed Jaffer Indians shout slogans outside the U.S. Embassy to protest against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. The Indian diplomat said she faced repeated "handcuffing, stripping and cavity searches" following her arrest in New York City on visa fraud charges in a case that has infuriated the government in New Delhi. Supporters of right wing Rashtrawadi Shivsena, or nationalist soldiers of Shiva, shout slogans near the U.S Embassy to protest against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Activists of Sanskriti Bachao Manch, or save culture forum, burn posters of U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. flags during a demonstration to protest against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, in Bhopal, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. AP Photo/Rajeev Gupta UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Indian diplomat who says she was strip-searched after her arrest in New York City on visa charges has been transferred to India's mission to the United Nations. A former colleague at the Indian consulate in New York confirmed the move and said Devyani Khobragade was transferred Tuesday. "I can't comment more on that," says Venkatasamy Perumal, consul for press and information. Requests for comment to the U.N. mission's first secretary have not been immediately returned.