The C-17 aircraft, which landed at the Amritsar airport around on Saturday, was carrying the second batch of Indians to be deported by the Trump administration.Deportees on board the US military aircraft carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants have claimed that they were handcuffed and their legs were chained during the journey.
The C-17 aircraft, which landed at the Amritsar airport around 11.35 pm on Saturday, was carrying the second batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigrants after February 5.
A third plane carrying over 100 deportees is expected to land on Sunday, with the maximum number of deportees from Haryana.
Daljit Singh, who was among the deportees who reached Amritsar on Saturday night, told reporters they were handcuffed and their legs were chained during the journey.
“Our legs were chained, and hands were also cuffed,” Daljit told reporters in Hoshiarpur.Another deportee, Sourav, who reached his village Chandiwala in Punjab’s Ferozepur district on Sunday, said that they were shackled en route to Amritsar.
Sourav added that US authorities told him that they would be shifted to another camp. “A day before yesterday, we were told that we will be shifted to another camp. When we were put into a plane, they said we are being taken to India,” he said.
Harjit Singh, a resident of Khanowal Ghuman village in Gurdaspur district, said that he was deported on February.
“We reached home at around 6 am today,” he was quoted as saying by PTI. “We were caught while crossing the US border on January 27 and kept at a detention centre for 18 days. We were deported on February 13, handcuffed with our legs chained.”
