The incident took place in the wee hours of Sunday, when the Vietnamese diplomat, Nguyen Duy Khanh, was returning from a party, suspectedly in an inebriated state, in his Toyota car and hit the vehicle of a 42-year-old woman.
Delhi Police have also sent a report to the Union Home Ministry in connection with the incident. The vehicles of both the diplomat and the woman, identified as Arti Gupta, were damaged but nobody was injured, a senior official said.
"A case under Section 279 of IPC has been registered in connection with the matter at Vasant Kunj (South) Police Station," additional DCP (South) Nupur Prasad said.