JOIN US Harbhajan said he has undergone numerous checking and screening procedure and never found anything wrong with it.
"I don't know what exactly happened there. But I just heard that he was detained for two hours which I think is a routine procedure. You people have made it a big news," the off-spinner told reporters after laying the foundation for a cancer research institute here today.
Harbhajan said Shah Rukh deserved respect as a public figure but screening is a routine procedure followed in airports across the world.
"They check everybody. Even I was checked and screened a number of times. It's a routine procedure," he said, before adding "however, SRK is a public figure and he should be respected."
Shah Rukh was upset with the way he was treated at the airport and the 43-year-old actor said he did not feel like stepping on American soil again.
"I was treated shabbily just because I happened to have Khan as my last name," Shah Rukh had told the audience yesterday at an Atlantic City function where he appeared in tattered jeans, a white T-shirt, a brownish coat and a muffler since his baggage had not arrived.