Journalist Vir Sanghvi, who on October 19 accused Delhi airport customs officials of harassment and called on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to “act” and “clean up Delhi Customs”, has now shared a detailed account of his experience after landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
‘Wintrack’s case taught babus nothing’
In an opinion piece published by NDTV , he said the incident showed that “Wintrack’s case taught babus nothing”.
“I arrived in Delhi at three in the morning on Sunday, October 19, the day before Diwali ,” he wrote, before adding that guys in plainclothes stopped him and his wife and insisted that their bags be put through an X-ray scanner.
He expressed, “This made no real difference to me. There was nothing in our bags.”
Vir Sanghvi details harr