NEW DELHI — India has asked the United States to withdraw a diplomat from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, according to an Associated Press report, in the latest retaliatory measure in a diplomatic dispute touched off by the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York.

Indian officials have described the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul-general in New York, as barbaric. Khobragade, a 39-year-old mother of two who has maintained her innocence, is accused, according to the AP, of exploiting her Indian-born housekeeper and nanny.