Stripped, No Restroom Break: Indian Entrepreneur Shares 8-Hour Detention Ordeal At US Airport
Indian Entrepreneur Shruti Chaturvedi: Allegeding that a male officer physically checked her under camera surveillance, Shruti Chaturvedi said that she was also not allowed to use the restroom during these eight hours.
Shruti Chaturvedi Airport Detention: An Indian entrepreneur shared that she was detained for eight hours at a US airport by the police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Owing to this, she missed her flight, Shruti Chaturvedi said as she shared her ordeal in an X post.
Allegeding that a male officer physically checked her under camera surveillance, the entrepreneur said that she was also not allowed to use the restroom during these eight hours. She was being searched because of a power bank in her handbag that the security personnel at Anchorage airport in Alaska considered “suspicious", she said.
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Her post on X read, “Imagine being detained by Police and FBI for 8 hours, being questioned the most ridiculous things, physically checked by a male officer on camera, stripped off warm wear, mobile phone, wallet, kept in chilled room, not allowed to use a restroom, or make a single phone call, made to miss your flight – all because the airport security found your powerbank in handbag “suspicious"."
Tagging Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and the Ministry of External Affairs, she wrote, “I don’t have to imagine, already past the worst 7 hours. And we all know why."
Imagine being detained by Police and FBI for 8 hours, being questioned the most ridiculous things, physically checked by a male officer on camera, stripped off warm wear, mobile phone, wallet, kept in chilled room, not allowed to use a restroom, or make a single phone call, made…— Shruti Chaturvedi 🇮🇳 (@adhicutting) April 8, 2025
Shruti Chaturvedi runs the Chaipani public relations firm.
Earlier, she posted photos from her Alaska trip on social media. She also posted photos of the Northern Lights and wrote, “Flew to Alaska, drove through the Dalton Highway, crossed the Arctic Circle, and watched the Northern Lights from room balcony on the night I was not prepared to see one."
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