The US aircraft carrying the third batch of Indian immigrants landed at the Shri Guru Ram Dass International Airport in Amritsar on Sunday.
The flight, with about 112 deportees on board, has the maximum number of persons from Haryana.
Of the 112 deportees, 44 are from Haryana, 33 from Gujarat, 31 from Punjab, two from Uttar Pradesh, and one each from Himachal and Uttarakhand.
The flight comes a day after the US military aircraft carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amristar. The C-17 aircraft had landed at the Amritsar airport around 11.35 pm on Saturday.
Of the 117 persons, 65 were from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and Goa and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
Three deportees on board the aircraft claimed that they were handcuffed and their legs were chained during the journey.
Among the deportees were also two youths from Rajpura in Patiala district, who were arrested by the police in connection with a murder case upon their landing in Amritsar.
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