'Hands cuffed and legs chained': Deportee from US shares ordeal

Third US plane with 112 Indian deportees lands at Amritsar airport

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A US military aircraft carrying 116 illegal Indian immigrants landed at Amritsar airport late on Saturday night, with the men among the deportees claiming they were in shackles during the journey and Sikh youths were allegedly without turbans.

The C-17 aircraft, which landed at the airport around 11.35 pm on Saturday, was the second batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigrants. Of these 116 deportees, 65 are from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, two each from Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. They were provided food upon reaching Amritsar, much to their reprieve after the exhausting journey.

According to sources, most of the deportees in the second batch were aged between 18 and 30.

A third plane carrying 112 deportees, that include people from Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat, landed at Amritsar airport at 10:03 pm on Sunday night, official sources said. Of the 112 deportees, 44 are from Haryana, 33 from Gujarat, 31 from Punjab, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, said sources.