{"id":19193,"date":"2025-03-01T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=19193"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:37:02","slug":"delhi-igi-airport-body-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/delhi-igi-airport-body-scanners\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi IGI Airport\u2019s New Body Scanners are Sensitive to Indian Women Wearing Saris and Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Earlier in 2017, Indian women\u2019s multi-fold saris with embroidery or mirror or other material work fooled Delhi IGI Airport\u2019s body scanners into raising alarms for nothing. Many female travelers refused to comply with the security norms since they were required to remove their <em>mangalsutra<\/em> for the pre-boarding scan. Ultimately, the American body scanners were withdrawn from Indira Gandhi International Airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/business-class-flights-to-new-delhi-del\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Delhi IGI Airport<\/span><\/a> sourced a new body scanner which is smart enough to see through multi-layered Indian attires, particularly sari with metallic work.<\/strong> Developed by a Russian company and a Gujarat-based manufacturer in a collaborative venture, the body scanner has been on a week-long trial at Delhi Airport and proven sensitive to Indian women\u2019s <em>Desi<\/em> outfits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/delhi-igi-airport-body-scanners\/delhi-airport-new-scanners-sensitive-to-indian-outfits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19198 noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19198 size-full\" title=\"Delhi IGI Airport\u2019s New Body Scanners are Sensitive to Indian Women Wearing Saris and Jewelry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Delhi-airport-new-scanners-sensitive-to-Indian-outfits.jpg\" alt=\"Delhi airport news, Delhi IGI Airport, Delhi airport checking\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the previous scanners, <strong>the new body scanner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/last-minute-flights-to-new-delhi-del\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Delhi IGI Airport<\/span><\/a> does not beep immediately and unnecessarily when a sari-clad woman wearing jewelry goes through it.<\/strong> Rather, it produces an X-ray image for the screening staff to check if the woman under scan is hiding any prohibited or suspicious item.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Also Check: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIJ9xmSPt3e\/\">10 Passenger-friendly Facilities at Delhi Airport<\/a> for Seamless Travel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usual body scanners require male travelers to remove their wallets, watches, and belts, and female fliers to remove their handbags and jewelry.<strong> The new scanners at Delhi IGI Airport do not need travelers to take off shoes, belts, watches, wallets, jewelry, phones, etc.<\/strong> Reportedly, the new scanner has been manufactured in harmony with Indian sentiments and standards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s the most likeable about the new body scanner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-new-delhi-del\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Delhi Airport<\/span><\/a> is that it is configured in such a way so as to produce mannequin-like images without revealing body parts, according to the Bureau for Civil Aviation Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>To be installed at Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi Airport (DEL), the full body scanner can detect explosives, metallic things and other suspicious items even through prosthetics, plaster casts, and multi-layered Indian attires<\/strong>. So, not only Indian women wearing sarees with metallic work but also differently-abled passengers on wheel chairs can comfortably go through the scan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18550 noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18550 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Book-cheap-international-flights-to-New-Delhi.png\" alt=\"cheap flights to Delhi, US to Delhi cheap airfares, Indian Eagle Travel deals\" width=\"657\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>However, passengers will have to undergo physical frisking even after a full-body scan in a telephone booth-like structure. The new scanner will finally be put to use by this month end<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in 2017, Indian women\u2019s multi-fold saris with embroidery or mirror or other material work fooled Delhi IGI Airport\u2019s body scanners into raising alarms for nothing. Many female travelers refused to comply with the security norms since they were required to remove their mangalsutra for the pre-boarding scan. 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