MALVEAUX: The relationship between the United States and India, being put to a test today, this all started with this. This is a woman, a diplomat from India, who was arrested last month outside her daughter's school in New York City. She was later strip searched. Well, she was sent home today, back to India, despite the fact that federal prosecutors charged her with lying on some visa paperwork. Well, now, the Indian government wants an American diplomat removed from the embassy in New Delhi, someone equal in rank. The diplomat's father talked to CNN in India.</s>UTTAM KHOBRAGADE, DEVYANI KHOBRAGADE'S FATHER: They have not met any (inaudible). She was innocent. The case is false. And in that light, who cares what (inaudible)?</s>MALVEAUX: Sumnima Udas is with us, live from New Delhi. And this seems like a tit-for-tat at this point, really, because you're talking about one country feels offended at the way their diplomat was treated and now they're trying to oust the American diplomat. Where are we with all of this?</s>SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Officials in both countries have maintained that this relationship between India and the U.S. is very, very important that -- we're talking about two largest democracies in the world. We're talking about bilateral trade of a hundred billion dollars. So this minor hiccup -- that's what the Indian prime minister called it, "this minor hiccup" -- is not going to affect the larger relationship between the two countries, but still, a lot of damage has already been done. As we saw soon after that diplomat in the U.S., India ordered a lot of the barricades around the U.S. embassy here in Delphi to be removed. Then they asked U.S. embassy officials to declare how much they were own nannies, their own housekeepers, here in India. And then, just yesterday, India asked the U.S. embassy here to shut down a very popular American club, which is inside the U.S. embassy.
India-U.S. Relationship Tested Over Diplomat Flap