India, Sept. 25 -- 73-year-old Harjit Kaur from Punjab, who spent 33 years in the US, was deported back to India, with her lawyer alleging inhumane treatment by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.

Immigrant rights advocates are calling Kaur's deportation, which happened earlier this week, a cruel and unnecessary act of enforcement.

Harjit Kaur's lawyer, Deepak Ahluwalia, said in an Instagram post that his client was suddenly taken from Bakersfield to Los Angeles on Sunday night and put on a chartered flight by ICE. The flight came to New Delhi on Tuesday, September 23, through Georgia.

According to Ahluwalia, the 73-year-old was treated harshly on her journey back to India. He said that she was kept in shackles for...