Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, an Indian woman was asked to strip by Frankfurt airport security officers in front of her 4-year-old daughter.

Shruthi Basappa, in her Facebook post, said that despite clearing a body scan while flying from Bengaluru to Iceland she was asked to strip. “I hate to play the race card here, but I was the only person pulled aside and peeking at my husband instantly changed the woman’s mind about the strip search that was now a regular pat down,” she said.

In her post, she further said, “I was asked to remove the dress I was wearing. Yes! Remove my clothes. Is this the new norm? Isn’t it enough to always be the one random person picked out of line that now I need to wrap my head around the fact that I might be asked to strip?” Do I need to wax my legs? Do I need to carefully put together a special ‘for travel lingerie’ set that has nothing to do with seducing my husband but more about hiding the outrage, anger, humiliation and disgust that is an inevitable part of travelling through airports?”

Basappa was quoted in NDTV saying that she has been in touch with the airport authorities and was awaiting a reply. “I have filed a complaint with the authorities in Frankfurt Airport but I am not surprised that it has been over two days and I have no answer from them,” NDTV quoted Basappa as saying.