New Delhi: Two Indian students duped by a "sham" American university and forced to wear radio tags weretoday sent to a detention centre in the US after they complained about the movement monitoring device tied to their legs.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 USD 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 "hep and happening" thing and wondered why Indians wereagitated over it.
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