Foxconn, a key manufacturing partner to Apple, has in its bid to diversify its supply chain beyond China, recalled over 300 Chinese engineers and technicians from its India assembly plants over the past two months.

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