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Airport Personnel Suspended After Conducting Strip-Search of 80-Year-Old Disabled Woman
Airport Personnel Suspended After Conducting Strip-Search of 80-Year-Old Disabled Woman
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Wheelchair-bound Mhalo Kikon said that she has had a titanium plate implanted in her hip for over 15 years now but was never embarrassed like this before. 25.03.2022, Sputnik International
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India's central paramilitary force CISF has suspended airport security personnel after receiving a complaint that a disabled octogenarian woman was allegedly strip-searched at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati city.The elderly lady, who had undergone a hip implant, was subject to the discomforting experience by the Central Industrial Security Force staff as part of a security check.The incident was reported on Thursday as the woman was being accompanied by her granddaughter for travelling from Guwahati city in Assam to Delhi.The victim told a local website eastmojo.com that she had to take off all her clothes, including her undergarments and diaper.The CISF swung into action only after the woman's daughter, Dolly Kikon, took to Twitter to complain about the incident. Kikon is an acclaimed anthropologist from Nagaland state in northeast India.She retweeted about the treatment meted out to her mother, expressing her helplessness as she tagged the CISF, the Assam state chief and others.Federal Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia responded to the complainant over Twitter, saying he is also "looking into this".The CISF, which is currently handling the security of the country's 64 airports, informed that: "The concerned security personnel has been suspended."A senior CISF officer told reporters, that in case of an implant, the passenger must show their implant area. Security personnel generally ask a few details to corroborate the passenger's version of having undergone surgery.
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Airport Personnel Suspended After Conducting Strip-Search of 80-Year-Old Disabled Woman
12:22 GMT 25.03.2022 (Updated: 10:43 GMT 19.07.2022) Deexa Khanduri
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Wheelchair-bound Mhalo Kikon said that she has had a titanium plate implanted in her hip for over 15 years now but was never embarrassed like this before.
India's central paramilitary force CISF has suspended airport security personnel after receiving a
complaint that a disabled octogenarian woman was allegedly strip-searched at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati city.
The elderly lady, who had undergone a hip implant, was subject to the discomforting experience by the Central Industrial Security Force staff as part of a security check.
The incident was reported on Thursday as the woman was being accompanied by her granddaughter for travelling from Guwahati city in Assam to Delhi.
The victim told a local website
eastmojo.com that she had to take off all her clothes, including her undergarments and diaper.
The CISF swung into action only after the woman's daughter, Dolly Kikon, took to Twitter to complain about the incident. Kikon is an acclaimed anthropologist from Nagaland state in northeast India.
She retweeted about the treatment meted out to her mother, expressing her helplessness as she tagged the CISF, the Assam state chief
and others.
Federal Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia responded to the complainant over Twitter, saying he is also "looking into this".
The CISF, which is currently handling the security of the country's 64 airports, informed that: "The concerned security personnel has been suspended."
A senior CISF officer told reporters, that in case of an implant, the passenger must show their implant area. Security personnel generally ask a few details to corroborate the passenger's version of having
undergone surgery.
