Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, is accused of submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her Manhattan housekeeper. Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was subjected to a humiliating strip search and was kept in a cell with drug addicts after her arrest for alleged visa fraud.The U.S. Justice Department confirmed that Khobragade was stripsearched after her arrest. The arrest and stripsearch of India's deputy consul general in New York triggered an escalating diplomat dispute on Tuesday. US has said it is "looking into" the facts of Devyani Khobragade's arrest, even as US Marshals today admitted that she had been strip searched. Devyani Khobragade, arrested in New York on charges of visa fraud, was put through both strip and cavity searches, procedures normally used for criminals. Indian officials are furious over how Devyani Khobragade, 39, was detained. Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general, was handcuffed upon arrest last week. US officials have confirmed she was strip-searched afterwards.