By Ted Thornhill PUBLISHED: 04:07 EST, 25 December 2013 | UPDATED: 04:08 EST, 25 December 2013 A lawyer for an Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip search in New York City drew angry responses from officials in India accused U.S. authorities of bungling the investigation. On Tuesday attorney Daniel Arshack said the agent who drew up charges against his client made a key error in reading a form submitted on behalf of a domestic worker for Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York. She was arrested two weeks ago and charged with submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her New York City housekeeper.
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Lawyer for Devyani Khobragade claim's officials mistook her listed base salary for what she intended to pay her housekeeper
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'It's incredibly unsexy kind of information, but it does go right to the heart of what this is about,' he said
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Khobragade was arrested in early December, charged with submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her New York maid
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Her detainment and subsequent strip search has soured U.S-India relations
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