After actress Sudhaa Chandran shared a video on her social media requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to issue a specific card for senior citizen, CISF issued an apology. The actress had revealed she was asked at the airport to remove her prosthetic leg for ETD. On October 21, the actress, who is specially abled and uses a prosthetic leg, was flying for work purposes when she was stopped by the security personnel. Sudhaa, felt hurt and shared her ordeal of going through security ‘grills’ each time.
The 56-year-old actress, in a recent Instagram video, was heard recalling her ordeal at the airport where she was asked to remove her artificial limb at the security check even after she requested the CISF officers to do an ETD (Explosive Trace Detector) for her artificial limb.
On Friday, the Twitter handle for CISF wrote, “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 also said, “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”
