Deported Indians from US land in Ahmedabad

A plane carrying 33 persons from Gujarat, who were among 104 Indians deported from the US for illegal immigration, landed at Ahmedabad airport from Amritsar today morning, officials said. 33 immigrants, including some children and women, were taken to their native places in Gujarat in police vehicles, said Assistant Commissioner of Police, 'G' division, R D Oza.

"A plane carrying 33 Gujarati immigrants, including children and women, landed at the airport from Amritsar in the morning. They were among those who were deported from the US. We deployed police vehicles at the airport to take them to their places," Oza told reporters at the airport.

When mediapersons tried to talk to the deported immigrants, they refused to speak and left for their native places in the police vehicles.

Most of them are from Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Patan, Vadodara, and Kheda districts, said sources.

A US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants, including 33 from Gujarat, landed at Amritsar in Punjab yesterday.

Family members of the illegal immigrants from Gujarat claim they don't know how their kin reached foreign land.

Former state Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel had said, "These Gujaratis had gone to the foreign country for job or career and should not be portrayed as criminals."

Deputy Inspector General of Police, CID-Crime, Parikshita Rathod said, "We won't question the deportees now."