The United States Embassy in New Delhi has revoked and subsequently the visas of some Indian business executives and corporate leaders based on their participation in the trafficking of Fentanyl precursors, he said in a statement on Thursday.
Fentanyl precursors refer to basic chemicals or parents that form fentanyl, a main cause of overdose deaths in the United States.
The Embassy statement did not appoint the affected people, but a spokesman said they were Indian citizens.
Indian government officials have been cooperating closely with American counterparts to combat drug trafficking challenge, added the United States embassy in their statement.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Relations did not immediately respond to a request for Reuters For comments on US visa measures.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, whose punitive tariffs of 50 percent on Indian imports harm bilateral ties, has previously imposed additional levies to imports from China, Mexico and Canada, saying that they facilitated the flow of fentanyl to the United States.
In a statement to the United States Congress this week, Trump listed India as one of the 23 main countries of drug reduction or illicit drugs, although he added that the presence of any country on the list was not necessarily a reflection of the efforts of the drugs of his government.
