Para-Cyclist Asked to Take Off Prosthetic Limb at B’luru Airport

Aditya Mehta is a silver medalist at the Asian Para-Cycling Championship.

Aditya Mehta, 28-year-old para-cyclist was harassed during a security check at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport when he was traveling to Chandigarh. He was apparently forced to take off his prosthetic limb and was almost “stripped off” it.

There cannot be a worst treatment than this for an amputee. On one hand we are trying our best to make lives better for the amputees at the Central Armed Forces and on other hand there are these uncivil officers who try to put us down. It was really humiliating for me to receive such immoral treatment. I was asked to take off my prosthetic limb and was almost stripped off.

Aditya is a silver medalist at the Asian Para-Cycling Championship and was a businessman before he became a para-cyclist.

Do you call this a security check? Is this the kind of treatment you give to differently challenged people? These officers are meant to protect our lives not show us reasons to end our lives. A person like me who always tries to look at the brighter side of everything, is today put down terribly!

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