Journalist and activist Yana Mir from Kashmir shared a video of herself being searched by customs officers when she arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport on X. The Delhi Customs said on Monday that Yana Mir, a journalist and activist from Kashmir, felt unnecessarily offended when she was asked to have her bags scanned at the IGI airport in Delhi. They added that this is a regular procedure for international passengers and that their privileges are not unconstitutional. After Yana Mir shared a video of her bag being checked by customs officers when she arrived at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on X (former Twitter), Delhi Customs responded.
International travelers’ bags are regularly scanned. While other passengers effortlessly placed their bags inside the scanner. Ms. Yana Mir was irritated without cause. Employees were polite at all times. The law is not above privileges. Videos narrate the tale. Delhi Customs wrote on X while expressing video footage to support its claim, and the department also included that footage in its reply. When Ms. Yana Mir was asked to have her bags scanned, she completely disobeyed. The department stated in another post that her luggage was eventually picked up by airline employees and a customs officer for scanning, as seen in the video.
Yana Mir, however, responded to the posts made by Delhi Customs by saying, “You are able to see clearly in the FOOTAGE. As soon as I was directed to scan, I went to the machine.” Government workers who were conceited, haughty, and entitled felt it was beneath them to assist me in placing the bulky luggage on the machine or returning it to the trolley.
Yana Mir had earlier on Monday shared a post that included the viral video of the bag scanning, which has since, presumably, been removed. How my return to India was received: Why are you carrying Louis Vuitton shopping bags, madam? Please scan and open your bag. Did you purchase them? What happened to the bills?
Londoners perceive me as an Indian media warrior. What customs in Delhi think of me: The journalist from Kashmir continued, “Brand Smuggler.”
The UK Parliament heard Yana Mir’s “safe in India” speech.
It’s interesting that Yana Mir wrote this just a few days after she vehemently criticized Pakistan’s use of propaganda to harm India’s reputation abroad and asserted that she felt totally safe and unhindered in Kashmir, an Indian territory. Yana Mir, speaking at the UK Parliament’s ‘Sankalp Divas’ in London, asked the world media to cease dividing the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir.
Yana Mir continued by asserting that she is not Malala Yusufzai, who was forced to leave her nation due to grave terrorist threats, and that her nation will always be resilient and united in the face of terrorist forces.
Since I live in my native India, where I am free and safe, I am not Malala Yusufzai. In Kashmir, an Indian state that is home to me, I will never have to flee to your nation in search of safety.
