New Delhi/IBNS, Feb. 6 -- India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said the government is engaging with the United States to ensure no Indian deportee is mistreated during the travel in the wake of 104 extradited nationals' claim that they were handcuffed and chained during the long journey.

Jaishankar issued a statement in Parliament in the backdrop of the Opposition's criticisms of the Centre over the way the deported Indians were treated.

The minister said, "Deportations by the US are organised and executed by the immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) authorities. The Standard Operating Procedure for deportation by aircraft used by ICE i.e. effective from 2012 provides for the use of restraints. However, we have been in...