India, Feb. 16 -- Two deportees on board the US military aircraft carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants have claimed that they were handcuffed and their legs were chained during the journey.

The C-17 aircraft, which landed at the Amritsar airport around 11.35 pm on Saturday, was carrying the second batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigrants after February 5.

A third plane carrying 157 deportees is expected to land on Sunday, with the maximum number of deportees from Haryana.

Daljit Singh, who was among the deportees who reached Amritsar on Saturday night, told reporters they were handcuffed and their legs were chained during the journey.

"Our legs were chained, an...