The U.S. Marshals Service claims that a stripsearch is standard operating procedure and that none of its policies were violated in this case. New job won't save stripsearch Indian diplomat from prosecution.Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general, was handcuffed upon arrest last week. US officials have confirmed she was strip-searched afterwards. US authorities' arrest and intrusive strip-searching of a female Indian diplomat have provoked a major spat between Washington and New Delhi. If it's legal there, then you're getting strip searched. The arrest and detention of an Indian consular official in New York on visa fraud charges has created a diplomatic uproar. 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. She was not just handcuffed but subjected to stripsearch, DNA swabbing and cavity searches, she wrote. The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Tuesday that it had stripsearched Khobragade and placed her in a cell with other female defendants.