India, Feb. 16 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said that India should protest if the deportees from the United States were handcuffed and shackled on their flight.

He also said that he was not happy about Americans choosing a military aircraft to send back Indian deportees.

"I am not happy about the Americans choosing to send a military aircraft," Tharoor told ANI. "I have not seen any report on whether these returnees were also handcuffed and shackled. If they were, we should definitely protest."

The US military aircraft, carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants, landed in Amritsar on Saturday night.

The C-17 aircraft, which landed at the Amritsar airport around 11.35 pm on Saturday, was carrying the second batch of Indians to ...