"She (Ambassador Nancy Powell) has already been summoned by the Foreign Secretary (Sujatha Singh)," ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told AFP.
The move comes after the Indian embassy in Washington said its deputy consul general in New York, Devyani Khobragade, was taken into custody on Thursday while she was dropping her daughter off at school.
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