Delhi's gurdwara management committee president Manjeet Singh GK and
other members of a Sikh delegation were asked to remove their turbans
during a security check at Rome airport last Tuesday.
Manjeet
Singh, who was returning from Italy's Cremona city after attending a
'Dastar (turban) Awareness Day' event, said they had offered to let the
staff touch their turbans and run a metal detector over it, but security
insisted on them taking off the turbans.
He said he would take up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He urged the government to mount pressure on foreign countries so that Sikh travellers were not asked to remove their turbans for security check at airports.
The issue also led to Sikhs protesting outside the Italian embassy in Delhi last Wednesday.
