Second Indian envoy embarrassed at US airport

Dubai: India has expressed concern after a second Indian envoy was embarrassed at a US airport.

Indian envoy to UN Hardeep Puri’s turban was patted down at the Texas airport, Times Now reported on Monday.

India has lodge an official protest with the US authorities. According to television reports, airport officials asked Puri to remove his turban during a security check. Puri refused to let his turban to be searched. Thereafter, Puri was made to wait for over half-an-hour in a 'holding room'.

This is the second instance of an Indian envoy being patted down at an US airport.

On December 4, Indian ambassador to the US, Meera Shanker, was pulled from an airport security line and patted down by an American security agent in Mississippi despite being told of her diplomatic status.