<p>40-year-old Vijay Kumar was arrested at George Bush Intercontinental airport on Friday after "acting suspicious," when screeners thought they saw a possible handgun in a scan of his baggage.<br /><br />"We will seek a report into the incident," Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said here.<br /><br />Kumar was in Houston to lecture a Hindu organisation about Islamic fundamentalism and the books packed in his checked luggage were educational tools, authorities and his lawyer told the court.<br /><br />Attorneys for Kumar said that he has surrendered his passport.The books and radical material was found in stacks, packed in Kumar's carry-on luggage, according to the police report.<br /><br />US officers also claimed to have found a pair of brass-knuckles in the luggage he had checked with his airline to be carried in the cargo hold of the aircraft.</p>
<p>40-year-old Vijay Kumar was arrested at George Bush Intercontinental airport on Friday after "acting suspicious," when screeners thought they saw a possible handgun in a scan of his baggage.<br /><br />"We will seek a report into the incident," Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said here.<br /><br />Kumar was in Houston to lecture a Hindu organisation about Islamic fundamentalism and the books packed in his checked luggage were educational tools, authorities and his lawyer told the court.<br /><br />Attorneys for Kumar said that he has surrendered his passport.The books and radical material was found in stacks, packed in Kumar's carry-on luggage, according to the police report.<br /><br />US officers also claimed to have found a pair of brass-knuckles in the luggage he had checked with his airline to be carried in the cargo hold of the aircraft.</p>