Female Musician Stripped for Security Check at Bengaluru Airport

Bengaluru: A female musician was allegedly asked to remove her shirt during the security check at Bengaluru airport. The Bengaluru airport authorities had to express regret over the incident.

The victim termed her experience as “really humiliating” and asked, “Why would you need a woman to strip?”

Security at the Bengaluru airport is managed by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

The musician had posted on her Twitter account on Tuesday evening, “I was asked to remove my shirt at Bengaluru airport during security check. It was really humiliating to stand there at the security checkpoint wearing just a camisole and getting the kind of attention you’d never want as a woman. @BLRAirport Why would you need a woman to strip?”. Later she deactivated her Twitter account.

Responding to her tweet, the Bengaluru airport’s official Twitter handle said “this should not have happened” and requested the woman passenger to share her contact details so that they can reach out to her.

“We deeply regret the hassle caused and this should not have happened. We have highlighted this to our operations team and also escalated it to the security team managed by CISF (Central Industrial Security force) a Government sovereign,” it said in a now-deleted Twitter reply.