Indian woman asked to strip at Frankfurt airport, MEA seeks report
Swaraj has sought the report from Consulate General of India in Frankfurt in Germany after the report surfaced in media.
Shruthi Basappa in a Facebook post shared that even though she had cleared the full body scan, the security officers were still apprehensive about her.
She was asked to remove her clothes by security officers which she claims to be a case of "racial-profiling."
Basappa was adamant in refusing to pull up her dress and insisted that her husband be called in.
The officers reportedly stopped only after her husband, an Icelandic, walked into the room.
She had also alleged that owing to her brown skin tone, she is often singled out and subjected to random checks by security officials at airports.
An architect by profession, Basappa, in a her FB post available with media wrote: "I was asked to remove the dress I was wearing. Yes. Remove my clothes. Is this the new norm? Isn't it enough to always be the one random person picked out of line that now I need to wrap my head around the fact that I might be asked to strip? Do I need to wax my legs? Do I need to carefully put together a special 'for travel lingerie' set that has nothing to do with seducing my husband but more about hiding the outrage, anger, humiliation and disgust that is an inevitable part of travelling through airports?"
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