Apple's strategic push into the Indian market appears to have encountered a significant roadblock due to Foxconn's move to send Chinese engineers home from India operations, raising questions about the pace and ease of Apple expansion plans in the subcontinent.

Apple's largest iPhone producer has reportedly ordered hundreds of its India-based Chinese workers to return to their native China but for unspecified reasons.

Apple's effort to expand iPhone production in India has encountered a setback as Foxconn has recalled hundreds of Chinese engineers