Pavan Varma, a former senior Indian diplomat said he was “outraged” by the treatment of Dr Khobragade which reflected American “arrogance” and “insensitivity”. It breached the Vienna Convention on the ‘civility’ with which diplomats must be treated and “can only be condoned by the fact that it considers itself to be the most powerful country in the world and the rest of the world should lump it,” he said.