Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s manufacturing push in the South Asian country.

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.

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.