New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- An Indian woman from Arunachal Pradesh has claimed that she was harassed at Shanghai Airport by airport authorities who claimed that Arunachal is a part of China and questioned her why she was carrying an Indian passport.

China has now denied the allegation of the woman being harassed.

Pema Wangjom Thongdok, a UK-based Indian citizen who was travelling from London to Japan on 21 November, claimed that her three-hour scheduled layover turned into a traumatising ordeal after immigration personnel declared her passport "invalid" solely because it listed Arunachal Pradesh as her birthplace.

Thongdok, in a number of social media posts, claimed that Chinese immigration officials detained her for around 18 hours on groun...