India, March 11 -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has refuted claim by Sundas 'Sunny' Naqvi, a US Citizen of Pakistan origin, that she was detained for 40 hours when she returned to the US after travelling abroad. Her family had claimed that since her arrival at Chicago O'Hare International Airport from Turkey, Sunny along with other members of the group were detained by DHS and that she was let go only after 40 hours of detention.

DHS took to X to deny the claim officially and wrote that Naqvi was stopped for law enforcement checks where her baggage was examined and that she departed the Customers and Border Protection only after 90 minutes.

"Ms. Naqvi was not taken into custody or transferred to ICE for detention," sad the ...