Mumbai: Suranjana Ghosh Aikara, who is an above the knee amputee, was asked to take off her prosthetic leg, which required her to strip, at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport for security check. Suranjana was told that the metal detectors would be set off by the metal components of her artificial leg and therefore she is required to take off her prosthetic leg.
Suranjana claimed she was forced to spend a harrowing half an hour convincing and arguing with the security staff, after which they finally agreed to conduct a physical frisking. She added that she underwent a similar situation in 2011 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
"I was flying out on the morning on July 5 with my mother from Mumbai to Delhi. We had to undergo the standard security checks at the airport. The checks are not standard for me because I am an artifical leg user, an above the knee amputee. What I usually do is I carry a lot of documentation which is my Government of India disability certificate. It has a graphic photo ID which shows the extend of my amputation. I carry letters from my prosthetic leg manufacturer and my press ID card. So, I handed over all that documentation and I told the lady who was going to do the security check that this is an artifical leg, so your metal decactor are going to be set off by this. She didn't even look at the documents and said you need to remove this as it needs to go through the scanner. I resisted and said I won't allow you to do that because I can't stand without it to which she said no," Suranjana said describing the incident.
12/07/13 Smitha Nair/Priyanka Dube/CNN-IBN
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Suranjana claimed she was forced to spend a harrowing half an hour convincing and arguing with the security staff, after which they finally agreed to conduct a physical frisking. She added that she underwent a similar situation in 2011 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
"I was flying out on the morning on July 5 with my mother from Mumbai to Delhi. We had to undergo the standard security checks at the airport. The checks are not standard for me because I am an artifical leg user, an above the knee amputee. What I usually do is I carry a lot of documentation which is my Government of India disability certificate. It has a graphic photo ID which shows the extend of my amputation. I carry letters from my prosthetic leg manufacturer and my press ID card. So, I handed over all that documentation and I told the lady who was going to do the security check that this is an artifical leg, so your metal decactor are going to be set off by this. She didn't even look at the documents and said you need to remove this as it needs to go through the scanner. I resisted and said I won't allow you to do that because I can't stand without it to which she said no," Suranjana said describing the incident.
12/07/13 Smitha Nair/Priyanka Dube/CNN-IBN
