New Delhi/IBNS, Feb. 7 -- The Centre Friday announced that US authorities had informed them about 487 presumed Indian citizens with "final removal orders" amid Donald Trump's deportation moves.

The announcement comes in the wake of a political row over 104 Indian migrants who were sent back to India, chained and handcuffed, on a C-17 US military aircraft on Wednesday.

"We've been told there are 487 presumed Indian citizens with final removal orders," Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said.

The deportees, who had attempted to enter the United States through illegal routes, were piled up in an aircraft and were reportedly shackled and restrained throughout the flight, only to be freed upon arrival in India.

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