<table style="float: left; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://static.gujaratsamachar.com/content_image/content_image_42254390-8344-48be-9f69-b5b88c110306.jpeg" data-filename="Untitled design - 2025-04-08T174005.132.png" style="width: 100%;" alt="Ahmedabad woman entrepreneur narrates 8 hr ordeal at US airport stripped denied use of restroom "></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="display: flex;justify-content: center;scale: 0.8;">Shruti Chaturvedi (image: X)</td></tr></tbody></table><br><p style="text-align: left;">An Indian entrepreneur was detained by the United States police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for eight hours at an airport.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left;">The woman&nbsp; 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’.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Shruti Chaturvedi, who was previously living in Ahmedabad, emphasised her detention ordeal on social media.</p><p style="text-align: left;">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.</p><p style="text-align: left;">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.”</p><p style="text-align: left;">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.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Chaturvedi is an alumnus of St Xavier’s College in Ahmedabad according to her LinkedIn profile.</p><p style="text-align: left;">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.</p><p style="text-align: left;">She has also worked as a journalist in Ahmedabad with some media outlets in 2012, her profile reads.</p>

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

Ahmedabad woman entrepreneur narrates 8 hr ordeal at US airport stripped denied use of restroom

Ahmedabad woman entrepreneur narrates 8-hr ordeal at US airport, stripped, denied use of restroom

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