After an outrage over the treatment meted out to Indian deportees from the US, which echoed also in Parliament, external affairs minister S Jaishankar strongly defended in both Houses India’s decision to accept illegal migrants sent back in an American military plane saying there had been no change in the past US procedure for the flight.

A C-17 heavy transport aircraft of the US military carrying 104 illegal migrants from India landed in Amritsar on Wednesday

India’s Parliament has been disrupted as opposition lawmakers protested the alleged mistreatment of 104 Indian immigrants deported by the United States