Shackling the deportees sent back to India in a US military aircraft was "a matter of great shame for the country", Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Thursday

Officials revealed that the highest number of deportees—33 each—were from Gujarat and Haryana, followed by 30 from Punjab. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh each had three deportees, while two were from Chandigarh.

Much of the migration from India to US appears to originate from the Sikh-dominated state of Punjab and neighbouring Haryana, which has traditionally seen people migrating oversea

The military plane carrying illegal Indian immigrants landed in the northern city of Amritsar, deporting an unspecified number of people as part of President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.

The flight appeared to be the first use of an American military aircraft to deport people to India, which is one of the top sources of illegal immigration to the United States.