Second US military aircraft with over 100 deported Indian citizens arrives in Amritsar

A second United States military aircraft carrying 119 deported Indian citizens landed at the Amritsar airport on Saturday night, reported The Indian Express.

The aircraft carried 67 persons from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Rajasthan, Goa, and Maharashtra, and one each from Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

On February 5, the first flight with 104 deported Indian citizens arrived in Amritsar from the US. Of them, 33 each were from Gujarat and Haryana, 30 from Punjab, three from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.

A third flight carrying deportees is expected to land on Sunday.

The deportations are part of a wider crackdown by US President Donald Trump’s administration.

In the wake of the deportations, the Punjab Police has formed a Special Investigation Team to inquire into undocumented migration and human trafficking.

Earlier on Saturday, Congress leader P Chidambaram said that “all eyes will be on the US aircraft which will land today in Amritsar bringing back illegal immigrants”.

In a post on X, he asked: “Will the deportees be handcuffed and their legs tied with ropes? It is a test for Indian diplomacy.”

Chidambaram was referring to reports of the mistreatment of the first flight of deportees by US authorities, including that their hands and legs were cuffed. Opposition parties too had flagged the mistreatment.

On February 6, External…

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