Port of Spain: Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago Malay Mishra has said he would prefer to put behind him an "incident" at the Piarco International Airport here last week when an immigration officer misbehaved with him, leading to the country/'s foreign minister expressing regret and promising corrective action.
The newspaper had contacted him for an update as The Sunday Guardian reported the incident after Mishra wrote to the paper to complain about it. The incident took place May 3 when Mishra was returning from a trip to Grenada.
According to the report, none of the passengers on board the flight were given immigration forms to fill up. On landing at Piarco airport, he went to the diplomatic queue for clearance and obtained a form. He was directed to a queue but found a No-Entry barricade there.
When he came back, an immigration officer shouted at him and told him to fill up the form. When Mishra said that he was representing a sovereign country, the officer told him that he was "misrepresenting" his country.
08/05/13 IANS/News Track India
