Third US military aircraft with 112 deported Indian citizens arrives in Amritsar

A third United States military flight carrying 112 deported Indian citizens landed at the Amritsar airport on Sunday night, The Indian Express reported.

Of these, 44 deportees are from Haryana, 33 from Gujarat, 31 from Punjab, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, The Hindu reported.

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

The deportees include 19 women and 14 minors, the newspaper reported. The third batch of deportees landed in Amritsar within 24 hours of another US military aircraft bringing the second such batch.

It was not immediately clear if this group had been shackled by the United States military.

A person from Haryana and another from Punjab were arrested after the aircraft landed in connection with unrelated cases pending against them, The Indian Express reported.

#WATCH | Punjab | The third batch of illegal Indian immigrants who were deported from the US and brought to Amritsar are now being sent to their respective states.

Visuals from outside of the Amritsar airport pic.twitter.com/YYYRTi1Vx9

— ANI (@ANI) February 16, 2025

The second batch of 119 deportees reached Amritsar on Saturday night on a military aircraft. Sixty-seven deportees were 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…

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