2 Men Deported By US Arrested In Murder Case On Arrival At Amritsar Airport

As many as 104 Indians were deported from the US in the first round on February 5 and a third plane with 157 deportees is expected to land in India on Sunday.

It was the second batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration after February 5 as part of its crackdown on illegal immigrants.

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Two men who were among 116 individuals deported by the US in a C-17 aircraft were arrested from Amritsar airport in connection with a murder case.

Sandeep Singh alias Sunny and Pradeep Singh, from Rajpura in Patiala district, were wanted in a murder case registered in 2023, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nanak Singh said.

The case against Sandeep and four others was registered in Rajpura in June 2023. During the investigation, the name of Pradeep, another accomplice of Sandeep, was added to the FIR.

The US military aircraft carrying 116 illegal Indian immigrants, including 65 from Punjab, landed in Amritsar at 11.35 pm on Saturday.

It was the second batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration after February 5 as part of its crackdown on illegal immigrants.

67 Of The Deportees From Punjab

Of the 116 people, 67 are from Punjab, 33 are from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. The deportees hailing from Punjab were taken to their homes in police vehicles after verification at around 4.30 am on Sunday. The Haryana government also made transportation arrangements for the deportees from the state.

NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal and Power Minister Harbhajan Singh met some of the deportees at the airport. Dhaliwal told them that the state government stood by them like a rock and asked them not to lose heart.

As many as 104 Indians were deported from the US in the first round on February 5 and a third plane with 157 deportees is expected to land in India on Sunday.

One of the deportees told Dhaliwal that he along with his cousin spent Rs 40 lakh each for reaching the US. Both belong to a village near Kalanaur in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district.

Dhaliwal said the government will send the travel agents who duped the youths behind bars and urged the deportees to come forward and lodge their complaints.