Notably, on February 5, a US Air Force plane carrying Indian citizens who "illegally immigrated" to the US arrived in Amritsar, Punjab. A total of 104 Indian nationals were on board the plane that landed in Amritsar.
Congress MP Manish Tewari on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha to discuss the treatment of Indian citizens deported from the United States and the Government of India's response on the matter.
In the special briefing by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday, ahead of Prime Minister Modi's overseas visit, Foreign Secretary gave a response to the query over the number of potential returnees from the US.
Misri, while speaking at a weekly press briefing on Friday said that there are certain legalities in the deportation process to make sure all the citizens are Indian citizens.
The US Air Force plane carrying Indian citizens who "illegally immigrated" to the US arrived in Punjab's Amritsar on Wednesday. A total of 104 Indian nationals were on board the plane that landed in Amritsar.
National President of Indian Youth Congress Uday Bhanu Chib raised the issue of the treatment of Indian citizens which were deported by the United States to India.
In a significant crackdown, Nashik Police have arrested eight Bangladeshi nationals after a team from the Central Crime Branch raided a construction site acting on confidential information, said police.
"The heart-rending ordeal of Indian citizens deported to India in the US Army plane is the ultimate denunciation of American pretensions as the global defender of human rights and democracy," said Ashwani Kumar.
The Congress leader claimed that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government had "insulted" the 140 crore Indians after 104 people, including men, women and children, were returned to Amritsar from the US in handcuffs and shackles.
"... More than 7.25 lakh Indian citizens went to the US in search of a better life... They had to go there to earn for their families because PM Modi government ran away from the promise of creating 2 crore jobs annually and there is 40% unemployment in the country... They were chained fo
Jaishankar said that deportations by the US are organized and executed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the standard operating procedure for deportation by aircraft used by ICE is effective from 2013.