Chandigarh: Amritinder Singh, Jeev Milkha's swing coach, who was humiliated by security guards at an airport in Italy, said that no one from the Indian government has contacted them as yet. "It is for the government to now take up the matter with the Italian government. Jeev spoke to the Indian Consul General (CG) in Italy. The CG told Jeev that there are many complaints of harassment of passengers against the Milan airport staff. He said he had taken up the matter with the Milan airport director. According to him, the standard operating technique in Europe is to either pat down the turban or use a scanner for airport checks," he said.
Himself a pro golfer, Amritinder is Jeev's swing coach and is credited with convincing him to go back to his "old golf swing" with which he has stood him well in last couple of years. "I showed the guards my passport and told them that I'd been travelling abroad for the last 30 years but they were adamant. No logic or argument seemed to move them. If this is my plight, I wonder what the common person goes through," he said.
In Chandigarh, his father Simran Singh, who was India's pioneering pro golfer, said the family was "not going to take this humiliation lying down. We are going to take up this issue through well-wishers who are in contact with the government. There have been similar episodes with Sikhs in the past but the government seems ineffective. How long shall Sikhs take such humiliation?" Jeev's mother, Nirmal, was horrified.
17/03/11 Times of India
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