New Delhi: The court of the chief commissioner for persons with
disabilities (CCPD) has asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) to reply within 30 days, with proof, that people with
disabilities are not being harassed or humiliated at airports and that
security personnel have been sensitized towards them. The court wrote to
DGCA after a person with locomotor disability claimed he was harassed
and humiliated at Hyderabad Airport.
TOI had reported that on February 23, Dr Satendra Singh, who was travelling from Hyderabad to Delhi, was asked by security at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to remove his leg brace during frisking. Singh, who teaches at the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi University, has post-polio residual paralysis and uses a knee-foot-ankle-orthosis (KFAO) also called a caliper or brace, for support.
Read news in full 15/09/14 Manash Pratim Gohain/Times of India
TOI had reported that on February 23, Dr Satendra Singh, who was travelling from Hyderabad to Delhi, was asked by security at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to remove his leg brace during frisking. Singh, who teaches at the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi University, has post-polio residual paralysis and uses a knee-foot-ankle-orthosis (KFAO) also called a caliper or brace, for support.
Read news in full 15/09/14 Manash Pratim Gohain/Times of India
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