The third batch of illegal Indian immigrants who were deported from the US to Punjab's Amritsar are now being sent to their respective states. The aircraft carrying the third batch of Indian nationals arrived just a day after the second batch of Indian nationals who allegedly illegally migra
Women and children were not restrained in the deportation flight carrying the second batch of Indian nationals that arrived in Amritsar on February 15, sources said on Sunday.
Reacting to the deportation of the second batch of Indian nationals, who were allegedly living illegally in the US, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said that he was not happy about the Americans choosing military aircraft for sending them back.
Punjab's NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal and Power Minister Harbhajan Singh ETO met illegal Indian immigrants who were deported from the US to Amritsar.
The Punjab CM arrived at Amritsar airport yesterday night and will be staying to receive the deported Indian nationals, who are expected to arrive around 10 PM.
In the past 48 hours, 131 Pakistani nationals have been deported from 12 countries over legal violations, including drug offences, illegal entry, and job-related breaches. Saudi Arabia and the UAE led the deportations, while authorities at Karachi airport also offloaded 86 passengers for var
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.
The individuals were detained for around 1600 hours while disembarking from Silchar-Agartala Express. The apprehended Bangladeshi nationals were returning from Bengaluru and had planned to exfiltrate to Bangladesh.
As per DRI officials, after a thorough search, 7 one-kilo foreign-marked gold bars and one cut piece of a foreign-marked gold bar were recovered from the waist bags concealed under the clothes of two of the passengers.