The Indian migrant who traveled with US military personnel on the second deportation flight reported that all deportees have claimed that their legs were chained and hands were cuffed.
This disclosure came only one week after initial deportees filed complaints which caused a major commotion. One of many illegal Indian immigrants carried by the C-17 US military aircraft which arrived in Amritsar at 11.35 pm on Saturday was Daljit Singh of Kurala Kalan village located in Hoshiarpur district Punjab.
The second batch of people have 65 individual from Punjab, 8 are from Gujarat, 33 are from Haryana, 2 each from Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. At the last one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
As reported by PTI, majorly the people are between 18 to 30 years of age.
The deportees had to pass immigration and background examinations before authorities would issue them permits to return home during early Sunday hours. Both Punjab and Haryana state governments organized transportation services to bring their state residents back home. A third flight planned to deport 157 people will bring arrivals to Amritsar on Sunday but local authorities have not disclosed their timetable.
As quoted by PTI, one of the individual Jaspal Singh from Punjab mentioned that, “We thought we were being taken to another camp. Then a police officer told us that we were being taken to India. We were handcuffed, and our legs were chained. These were opened at Amritsar airport.”
