Click to play videoChennai/New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN Citizen Journalist Prithvi Raj captured the apathetic attitude of security officials at the Banaglore airport towards his autistic child, notices have been issued to the CISF and to the Airports Authority of India demanding explanation for the insensitive behaviour.
Eleven-year-old Ahed was not allowed to board the Chennai-bound aircraft as the security official believed he would be “a threat to other passengers.”
Prithvi Raj, who is also a Tamil film star, shot the entire sequence of events and sent it to CNN-IBN to highlight the plight of autistic children.
"Our struggle is to integrate my son into the main stream society. We don't want special privilleges, but please do not treat him miserably," he said.
The couple have had to endure such behaviour at other airports in the past, but it was as never this severe. They finally decided that enough was enough.
'It's happened to me in Delhi a couple of times and in other places. They ask me, 'Aapka beta pagal hai? (Is your son mad?), and I ask them Aap pagal hai? (Are you mad?). Is this the way you ask someone. And then they keep gesturing to each other, saying that my son is mad," says Prithvi Raj.
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