New Delhi, March 18 -- The Indian government is verifying the nationality of 295 people who are in the custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with final orders of removal, external affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar informed the Rajya Sabha in a written response on March 13. People who have been verified to be Indian citizens have only been accepted "to be deported to India", the government said in another response.
Jaishankar said that between January and March 13, a total of 388 Indians have been deported to India from the US.
In total, 15,952 Indians have been deported by the US since 2009, MoS for external affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh informed the upper house on March 13 in another response. At 2,042, the highest ...