India's government expressed anger Thursday at a personal security check performed on India's ambassador to the United States, Meera Shanka. Shankar was searched by security personnel at the the Jackson-Ever International airport in Mississippi on December 4 on her way from a speech at a local college. She was pegged as "suspicious," Indian officials said, because she was a wearing a traditional Indian sari outfit. She displayed diplomatic documents, but was forced to undergo a full body pat-down anyway, Indian Foreign Ministry officials said in a formal complaint to the U.S. State Department.

"This is unacceptable to India," said Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna. "I am rather surprised by the way the ambassador has been treated."