Amputee made to remove artificial limb at airport,asks for sensitivity

For 37-year-old media professional Suranjana Ghosh,flying out of Mumbai on July 5 brought back the trauma she suffered about 15 years ago when she lost her left leg.

An above-knee amputee,Ghosh went through a harrowing experience when CISF personnel at Mumbai airport cited norms and demanded she take off her artificial limb for a security check. Removing the prosthesis would have required her to strip waist down,which she finds extremely humiliating,she said.

Ghosh and her mother were headed to Delhi when the incident took place. Ghosh told The Indian Express she had a similar experience in January 2011 when the CISF at Delhi airport forced her to remove her limb in the presence of women personnel. She did not file a complaint then,hoping it would not recur. But she changed her dress habits for air travel and began wearing tights and tunics instead of jeans and t-shirts.

This time,Ghosh whose left leg was amputated in 1997 due to a condition called osteo sarcoma,a form of bone cancer fought back.

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