The two students of the now-shut California-based Tri Valley University, whose identity is not known immediately, would be released only after they furnish a bond of $8,000 to $20,000, according to information reaching here.
Earlier in the day, the Indian government lodged a strong protest with the US Embassy here over certain “unacceptable” comments made by an American official on tagging of Indian students in California after which the Embassy expressed regrets.
US Deputy Chief of Mission Donald Lu expressed regrets over the comments by Juliet Wur, Public Affairs Officer at the US Consulate in Hyderabad, when Jawed Ashraf, Joint Secretary (Americas) in the External Affairs Ministry, called him, sources said.
Wur had told reporters in Hyderabad that tagging was a “hip and happening” thing and wondered why Indians were agitated over it.
“Those anklets are used when you have somebody who might flee. And so you give them the choice — would you go to the prison or would you like an anklet. The anklets are very hip and happening. Many of our movie stars caught in drunken driving or else choose the anklets than sitting in orange suit in a prison,” said Juliet Wur.
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