Press Trust of India Posted online: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 1825 hours IST Updated: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 1846 hours IST
New Delhi, July 14: As a controversy raged over his frisking at the New York airport last year, former Defence Minister George Fernandes on Wednesday denied that he underwent a "strip search".
"Nothing like strip search happened there," he told reporters in Delhi referring to the book authored by former US Deputy Secretary of state Strobe Talbott, which says that the then Defence Minister was "strip search" twice.
Fernandes said that he was asked to remove his coat, shoes and socks, which he did.
"Then I was asked to spread my arms and then raise them, "he said, adding after that khel khatam ho gaya (the drama ended).
