‘Checked by male officer, no restoom break’: The ordeal of Indian woman detained for 8 hours at US airport

Indian entrepreneur Shruti Chaturvedi said she was subjected to an eight-hour-long ordeal at a US airport after airport security officials found a power bank in her luggage 'suspicious'. Chaturvedi, who runs a public relations firm Chaaipani, said she was stripped of her warm clothes at Alaska's Anchorage airport, kept in a freezing room and was frisked by a male officer. She has now appealed to the Ministry of External Affairs to step in

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