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Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade (C) leaves with her father Uttam Khobragade (L) from the Maharashtra Sadan state guesthouse to meet India's Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid in New Delhi January 11, 2014.
Devyani Khobragade, who had been India's deputy consul-general in New York, had diplomatic immunity when she moved to dismiss the indictment on January 9, and as a result was entitled to the case's dismissal, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
'The government may not proceed on an indictment obtained when Khobragade was immune from the jurisdiction of the court,' Scheindlin wrote. She also lifted Khobragade's bail, and said open arrest warrants based on the indictment must be thrown out.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan had no immediate comment. Khobragade returned to India in January.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang)
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