US may exempt some Indian VIPs from frisking

New Delhi: After the frisking fiasco involving former president A P J Abdul Kalam on a US-bound American airline last year, the US aviation security department, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has conveyed to its Indian counterpart that it may exempt four to five categories of VVIPs from frisking before entering its aircraft.
The VVIP list is likely to include past and present presidents, the Vice-President, the Prime Minister and the present Union Cabinet. The list has been pruned down from some 30-40 categories of VVIPs which currently figure in the country’s Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) list who are exempted from frisking.
15/03/10 Smita Aggarwal/Indian Express

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline

Categories: Airports Mar 2010, Foreign Mar 2010