'Turbans In Dustbin', 'Wafer-Thin Blankets': Sikh Deportee Shares How They Were Sent Back

(MENAFN- Live Mint) While sending illegal Indian immigrants from the United States, government officials provided no proper food to the deportees. They even threw Turban, an article of Sikh faith, into the dustbin, according to Davinder Singh, one of the deportees who landed in Amritsar recently.

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In an interaction with news agency PTI, Davinder Singh said that saw US officials throwing turbans into the dustbin.

"It was very painful watching turbans being thrown into a dustbin," Davinder told PTI.

Twenty-one-year-old Davinder was among the second batch of 116 illegal Indian immigrants who were brought back into India in a US military aircraft on February 15.

Davinder Singh hails from the village of Nangal Jalalpur in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district and claims to have spent nearly ₹40 lakh to fulfil his American dream.

However, his journey to America (via Dunkey route) turned into a nightmare after he was detained in a US detention centre. He claimed that illegal Indian deportees were forced to live in“chilling temperature” with a“wafer-thin” blanket.

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"The air conditioning was run at an extremely low temperature round the clock in the detention center in the US, and we were given only wafer-thin blankets, which could not provide any sort of protection," claimed Singh, adding that he saw US officials throwing turbans -- an article of Sikh faith -- of many Sikh illegal immigrants into the dustbin.

Survival on chips, juice, half-baked bread

Davinder had crossed Amsterdam, Suriname, Guatemala and even traversed through the Panama only to get caught by the US Border Patrol on January 27. Later, he was sent to detention centre.

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