(CNN) -- India and the United States have become embroiled in a full-scale diplomatic row involving the case of Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat who was arrested last week and charged with visa fraud by U.S. authorities. Prosecutors claim she imported and employed an Indian housekeeper to whom she paid only a small fraction of her promised wages. After Khobragade's arrest, she was strip-searched in a private setting by a female U.S. marshal. This in particular caused a firestorm of criticism in India, though prosecutors and police claim all standard procedures were followed and that Khobragade was even given special considerations due to her diplomatic status.
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U.S.-India in diplomatic dispute over treatment of consular official in New York
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Jeremy Carl: India's government and media overreacted to the events
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He says India's retaliatory measures don't befit a great country, needlessly endanger U.S. relations
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Carl: Few observers in India focused on the apparent plight of the domestic worker
Indian politicians play frequent lip service to the "aam admi" or common man, but the @placeholder press is daily filled with accounts of horrific mistreatment meted out by upper-class Indians against India's "common citizens" (for example, just last month a member of India's parliament was arrested for beating a servant to death -- allegedly over the quality of her dusting).