Posted on 04/23/2015 6:27:40 AM PDT by Gamecock
An airport immigration officer who repeatedly asked a woman personal questions, including whether she slept with other men while her husband was away, has been arrested and suspended from duty while a full investigation takes place.
The victim was a female passenger about to depart India for Hong Kong. While waiting at the immigration counter before boarding the flight to meet her husband, she was stopped for questioning.
The immigration officer started by asking probing and seemingly unnecessary questions “like how many children I have, do I drink, do I smoke or eat chicken”, the woman told Indian news channel Times Now.
“He also asked me whether I sleep with other men when my husband is at work,” the woman alleged.
“Not once or twice, but he asked me four times if I had undergone a surgery for birth control.”
When the immigration officer asked her if she would like to have her third child with him, the woman, understandably, became alarmed.
The immigration officer not only harassed her during the immigration process, but then followed her, stalker-style, as she walked along the moving walkway between the domestic and international transfer, she told Times Now.
By the time the woman returned from her trip to Hong Kong, her father-in-law had laid an official complaint with Delhi Police.
Police considered that an offence had been committed and arrested the immigration officer. A media outcry over the alleged harassment has seen the Home Ministry, which is in charge of Immigration, suspend the suspect from work and set up a departmental inquiry.
The woman’s story drew a strong response from readers when it was related on the Yahoo News India site.
“Misbehaving with the passengers, especially Indian passengers, is very common,” one respondent said.
Another wrote: “Indian Immigration Officers at Mumbai airport are particularly bad. They look and look at you, especially if you are a woman with no children.”
A third writer called for “Arabic rules” to be imposed for such cases, with culprits tied to a pillar and stoned to death.
“do I eat chicken”
I get the rest of the questions, dude is a perv but wtf is that about I wonder.....weird.
Wondering if she is a compliant Hindu?
India has a very large Muslim minority. I’ll give you good odds that the customs guy is one of them.
:: By the time the woman returned from her trip to Hong Kong, her father-in-law ^^had laid^^ an official complaint with Delhi Police. ::
Well, let’s just chalk this one up to a bad choice of words in translation.
“Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”
I travel out of country many times a year. I detest immigration ‘officers.’ They are vermin of the lowest order. Coming back in to the USA I am always tempted to just say my name is José Sánchez and am an illegal Mexican alien and they have no right to ask me anything.
Sucking is a form of eating.
That which we call a rooster may also be termed a cock.
I don’t know but it reminded me of an old joke:
“What’s the difference between kinky and perverted?”
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Kinky uses a feather....perverted uses the whole chicken.
Same here.
Britain has the worst though. Total jerks.
Turkish? Nah.
There are several varieties of belief systems in India that have specific rules for what one can and cannot eat. Beyond the comedic value of the question, the guy may have been trying to discern if they were religiously compatible - not that the question has any place in this specific instance, of course.
Need more evidence to judge guilt or innocence.
Do you like gladiator movies?
“Wondering if she is a compliant Hindu?”
Probably. Apologies, my ignorance of other religions is showing........again.
have you even seen two grown men wrestle, Timmy?
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