Jalandhar, Feb. 7 -- Handcuffed and shackled, Lovepreet Kaur felt like a hardcore criminal onboard her deportation fight to India.

She had left Bholath in Kapurthala district on January 2, along with her 10-year-old son, after paying agents Rs.1.05 crore with a promise to enter the US and be reunited with her husband there. She was caught by the US border patrol on January 27 and deported. In the course of 25 days, she and her son crisscrossed through Dubai and Latin America (El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico) in an attempt to reunite with her husband, who has been in the US for the past few years.

"We were treated as if we were some sort of hardcore criminals. Handcuffed and chained we were not allowed to move in the plane or interact ...