My name is Praful Patel and I was detained in the US

New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Praful Patel was on Monday detained at the O’Hare airport in Chicago for questioning as his name and date of birth matched with those of a man on America’s watch list.
Patel told the immigration authorities that he was a minister in the Indian government, but they kept asking him why he was visiting the US and whether he had stayed in the country earlier.
The minister visited the US to meet his son before travelling to Montreal, Canada, to attend the general assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
“I am in Montreal and nothing serious has happened, so please don’t sensationalise the issue. There is a person with a similar name and birth date as mine. That’s why the authorities double-checked,” Patel told DNA.
29/09/10 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: airports Sep 2010, Foreign Sep 2010