Waris Ahluwalia stopped from boarding the flight due to his "appearance"

In a shocking act of racial discrimination, Hollywood actor, Waris Ahluwalia, was denied the right to board a flight because of his turban and beard.

Ahluwalia was trying to fly from Mexico City to New York City this morning, when Aeromexico stopped him from boarding the flight due to his "appearance".

Ahluwalia who dons many hats is a jewellery designer, a retailer, an actor and a model.

A United States based civil rights NGO, The Sikh Coalition has expressed shock over the incident calling it "shameful".

"I'm always the one to get singled out and searched," The New York Times in its December 2013 article had quoted Ahluwalia, as saying.

This is not for the first time that Ahluwalia has been targeted in the US. In December 2013, his Gap ad was defaced in a subway station with slurs like "Please stop driving taxis."

Ahluwalia is known for his role in movies like The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and Inside Man (2006), among others.

