An Indian entrepreneur was detained by the United States police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for eight hours at an airport. 

The woman  claimed that she was ‘physically checked’ by a male officer on camera, and stripped off her warm wear only because the security at Anchorage airport, Alaska found a powerbank in her luggage ‘suspicious’.

Shruti Chaturvedi, who was previously living in Ahmedabad, emphasised her detention ordeal on social media.

Chaturvedi claimed that she was checked by a male officer, stripped of warm wear, and denied use of the restroom during her detention over a minor suspicion.

Taking to her X, she wrote, “Imagine being detained by Police and FBI for 8 hours, being questioned the most ridiculous things, physically checked by a male officer on camera, stripped off warm wear, mobile phone, wallet, kept in chilled room, not allowed to use a restroom, or make a single phone call, made to miss your flight - all because the airport security found your power bank in handbag ‘suspicious’. I don’t have to imagine, already past the worst 7 hours. And we all know why.”

Chaturvedi tagged the foreign affairs ministry and Union Minister S Jaishankar in her post on X (formerly Twitter), demanding their attention to what had happened to her.

Chaturvedi is an alumnus of St Xavier’s College in Ahmedabad according to her LinkedIn profile.

Her profile states she is founder of ‘India Action Project’, a social enterprise with a key focus on using technology to boost income generation opportunities in rural India. She also claims to be a founder and editor of a PR firm based in Ahmedabad.

She has also worked as a journalist in Ahmedabad with some media outlets in 2012, her profile reads.