Sikh student detained by Secret Service

American Secret Service agents allegedly detained and interrogated a Boston Sikh for seven hours last week.

Twenty-one-year-old Sundeep Sahni, a college student with a double major in computer science and finance, told The Boston Globe newspaper that the agents who were staying in the Boston College campus for the Democratic National Convention took him in as he was taking photographs of the campus.

The agents, Sahni said, even suggested he was a criminal and searched his car for 'weapons and bombs' forcing him to sign a release form that gave agents access to his psychiatric records.

Sahni told the paper that he was singled out because of his appearance. At one point he said the agents told him: 'I don't want you pulling an Uzi from your turban.'

"It was the most humiliating experience of my life," Sahni told the paper.

Meanwhile, Boston College officials said they are giving Sahni their full support and are attempting to arrange a meeting between the student and the Secret Service.

"We want to arrange a conversation, which we hope will result in an apology," said Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn.

Agencies