Kuwaiti man, 3 women sent back to Dubai for refusing to lift veil at Delhi airport

Indian police say instead of cooperating, Kuwaiti national entered into an argument with them

A Kuwaiti man and three women travelling with him were sent back to Dubai from Delhi airport on September 4, after the man refused to unveil the faces of the women.

According to a Hindustan Times report, police was called when the passenger created disturbance at the immigration counter and tried to damage it.



“The male passenger was probably drunk as initially he even refused to fill the immigration form. After immigration officials managed to convince him, he refused to take off the burqa of female passengers accompanying him for face identification. When the matter could not be resolved for hours, the immigration officials decided to send them back,” confirmed a source at the airport.

The incident took place at around 9 pm when the passenger arrived from Dubai via an Emirates flight. An on duty officer asked him to fill the form when the Kuwaiti national reached the immigration counter.

“He got angry and refused to fill the form. He even abused the official and Indian system. While the officials were trying to pacify him, another passenger, who had arrived from Bangkok, also requested him to fill the form. Instead of listening to the other passenger, the Kuwaiti national entered into an argument with him. The passenger from Bangkok slapped him,” the official added.

However, when the incident started turning violent, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) asked the passenger, who had come from Bangkok to leave and convinced him to fill the form.



“He filled the immigration form but the women refused to unveil their faces for face identification. Female Immigration officers were called but even then, they did not cooperate. All of them started abusing immigration officials and tried to damage the counter,” he said.

This story originally appeared on Hindustan Times.