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December 13, 2010 | India's envoy to UN Hardeep Puri frisked at US airport | New Delhi: India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Hardeep Puri, is the latest to be subjected to a pat down, raising the hackles of New Delhi. Puri, who was subjected to a turban pat down at Houston
Airport, was held back for half an hour in a separate enclosure by the authorities.
He refused to allow US officials to carry out their search on his person. This
incident comes days after India's Ambassador to the United States, Meera Shankar
was patted down by an American security agent at the Jackson - Evers International
Airport in Mississippi, despite being accompanied by a US security official as
per diplomatic norms. Former diplomats in India have reacted aggressively to the
Puri incident, saying that if Washington not to change its policy or searches,
diplomats from the United States should also be ready to face such security in
India. They also called on the governments of the two counties to meet and resolve
the issue at the earliest.
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