Mumbai: Suranjana Ghose Akira would strike one as any young successful hardworking professional, which she is. She is also an above knee amputee having lost her left leg to osteosarcoma - a form of bone cancer in 1997.
On July 5, Suranjana went through a harrowing experience at the Mumbai airport when CISF personnel demanded that she remove her prosthetic limb, it would require her to strip waist down. "I was shaken by what I had to go through," she said. Two years ago, a smiliar experience at the Delhi airport had left her shaken, she said.
CNN-IBN has learnt that CISF Mumbai has sent a report to the headquarters stating that they have followed the mandate of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security. An expert committee set up the BCAS in 1993 had reccomendd that, "...passengers who are disabled on crutches or use prosthetics are not exempt from normal security procedures. The airport security staff should be thoroughly briefed that the possibility of carrying weapons/explosives and other dangerous materials through such passengers is higher than through a normal person and therefore these passengers need be checked with care."
12/07/13 IBN Live
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On July 5, Suranjana went through a harrowing experience at the Mumbai airport when CISF personnel demanded that she remove her prosthetic limb, it would require her to strip waist down. "I was shaken by what I had to go through," she said. Two years ago, a smiliar experience at the Delhi airport had left her shaken, she said.
CNN-IBN has learnt that CISF Mumbai has sent a report to the headquarters stating that they have followed the mandate of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security. An expert committee set up the BCAS in 1993 had reccomendd that, "...passengers who are disabled on crutches or use prosthetics are not exempt from normal security procedures. The airport security staff should be thoroughly briefed that the possibility of carrying weapons/explosives and other dangerous materials through such passengers is higher than through a normal person and therefore these passengers need be checked with care."
12/07/13 IBN Live
