Face recognition gone wrong: Noida man detained at Abu Dhabi airport returns

Indian citizen wrongly detained in the UAE over mistaken identity landed in India in the early hours of Sunday.

Praveen Kumar, a Noida-based businessman, was detained at the Abu Dhabi airport as his face matched with a 'wanted criminal' in a face recognition software on October 11.

Kumar is a resident of Habibpur village in Greater Noida and works as a contractor for a cement company.

He and his wife Usha were on a week-long leisure trip to Switzerland and had a connecting flight from Abu Dhabi.

Usha said the immigration authorities at the airport took their passports and visas and the airport officers then took them to a separate room.

The family members were frantically tweeting their ordeal to external affairs minister S Jaishankar and other senior officials of the ministry to seek assistance in the matter.

After landing in India, Kumar said that CID there at the airport detained him but let him go for the first time. However, he was detained for the second time when he was on his way toward departure.