Indian woman told to strip at Frankfurt airport, Sushma seeks report

An Indian woman was allegedly asked to strip by security officials at Frankfurt airport, prompting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to seek a report from the Indian consul general concerned.

“Raveesh – please send me a report on this. @CGIFrankfurt (sic),” Swaraj tweeted to Indian consul general in Frankfurt Raveesh Kumar.

Her tweet came following news reports based on the woman's Facebook post in which she alleged that she was asked to strip at the airport while she was on way to Iceland from Bengaluru on March 29.

“We were travelling to Iceland from India via Frankfurt with our 4-year-old daughter when I was asked to move aside for this ‘random check’, no explanations offered. I was taken into a room and was asked to lift my dress/take it off so that I could be checked to make sure I wasn’t carrying anything under my clothes,” Shruthi Basappa alleged in the Facebook post.

“I’m always the ‘chosen one’for random security checks - pat down, baggage check, let’s take you into a room for a closer pat down etc. Of course it is random. Of course it is not because I’m brown. But this happens every time. Every. Single. Time,” she alleged.

Image: Frankfurt airport. Photograph used for representational purposes only.