India, Feb. 7 -- Chandigarh Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday stated that handcuffing and shackling the deportees sent to India from the US was a matter of "great shame" for the country.

Taking to X to vent his ire at the treatment meted out to them, Mann termed the US action as "regrettable". He also slammed the Haryana government for taking the returnees hailing from the state in prisoner vans from Amritsar, where they landed in a US military plane. "What US has done is regrettable. Sending our citizens back in handcuffs and chains is a matter of great shame for our country. Instead of applying balm on the wounds of Indians deported from America, who are mentally and financially broken, Modi's Haryana government took them in pri...