CISF apologises to Sudhaa Chandran after being asked to take off prosthetic limb at airport

Dancer and actor Sudhaa Chandran had shared a video on her social media account yesterday saying that she was made to remove her prosthetic limb to clear airport security. Now the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has issued an apology to Sudhaa for the inconvenience. Sudhaa had reached the Mumbai airport where she was to board a flight to Hyderabad when she was asked by the authorities to remove her prosthetic limb to clear security.

The 56-year old actress took to her social media account and shared a video in which she asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the matter, “Good evening, this is a very personal note that I want to tell to our dear Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, this is an appeal to the central government, I am Sudha Chandran, an actress and dancer by profession, who has danced with an artificial limb and created history and made my country very proud of me.”

She further added, “But every time that I go on my professional visits, each time, am stopped at the airport and when I request them at the security, to the CISF officers that please do an ETD (Explosive Trace Detector) for my artificial limb, they still want me to remove my artificial limb and show it to them. Is this humanly possible, Modi ji?.”

 

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Issuing a public apology to the actress, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the agency in charge of the airport security, said in their recent tweet, “We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused to Ms. Sudhaa Chandran. As per protocol, prosthetics are to be removed for security checks only under exceptional circumstances. 1/2”, they continued in another tweet, “We will examine why the lady personnel concerned requests Chandran to remove the prosthetics. We assure Chandran that all our personnel will be sensitised again on the protocols so that no inconvenience is caused to travelling passengers.”

We will examine why the lady personnel concerned requested Ms. Sudhaa Chandran to remove the prosthetics. We assure Ms.Sudhaa Chandran that all our personnel will be sensitised again on the protocols so that no inconvenience is caused to travelling passengers. 2/2

— CISF (@CISFHQrs) October 22, 2021

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