Mohali, Feb. 17 -- Eerie silence hung over Lalru's Jaula Khurd village on Sunday morning after the couple who were in the second batch of the deportees reached home. The couple, Gurpreet Singh, 28 and his wife Amanpreet Kaur, 23, who according to their family are still processing their ordeal and have refused to talk to anyone.

"We paid Rs.80 lakh in instalments to the agent who promised to send my son and daughter-in-law legally to America. We took loans and borrowed money from relatives or associates. We were so happy the day our children went abroad after many failed attempts and now we have received them back broken and disheartened battling depression," Jaswinder Singh, father of Gurpreet Singh, said.

Jaswinder Singh is an ASI at I...