Days after being detained and questioned for two hours by the US immigration authorities at Newark airport, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday sought to clear the air by stating that while it had been an embarrassing incident, it had certainly been blown out of proportion.
Khan, on his return from the US, was welcomed by a huge crowd of fans and media at the airport. He then proceeded to his Bandra residence, Mannat, where he spoke to the media.
At the news conference, the actor gave a detailed description of what he went through in those two hours. “I was with my colleagues. Their fingerprints were taken, but when it was my turn they told me that I would be escorted elsewhere by someone.”
Khan went along to find himself in a room full of Indian and Pakistani nationals who were waiting to be questioned. He said his papers were in order and that he understood there were procedures to be followed by every country. But what perturbed him the most, he said, was that it seemed the authorities were not following the procedures as they did not take his fingerprints or retina scan.
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