A source close to the Republican Party of India (RPI-A) chief said an order appointing Devyani was passed today.
Her father Uttam Khobragade, a former IAS officer, is the national executive president of RPI-A, which is part of the Bharatiya Janta Party-Shiv Sena-led Mahayuti (grand alliance) in Maharashtra, and had joined the party in September 2014.
The 1999-batch IFS officer was arrested on December 12, 2013, in theUS when she was India's Deputy Consul-General in New Yorkon visa fraudcharges andfor allegedly providing false declarations in a visa application for her maid.
The incident had triggered a diplomatic row between the US and India.
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