An image showing several people handcuffed and chained while being seated inside a fighter jet is going viral online to claim that these are Indians who are being deported from the United States.

A US Air Force aircraft carrying 104 deported Indians landed in Punjab’s Amritsar on Wednesday. Soon, images of people sitting in handcuffs started making rounds on social media. But is there any truth to these viral photos?

India has said that it is open to the return of undocumented Indians in the United States if their nationality is verified

Social media outrage erupted over images misattributed to Indian deportees from the US. The photos actually show Guatemalan migrants.

Congress expressed sadness over the treatment of Indians being deported from the US. They recalled the 2013 incident involving diplomat Devyani Khobragade and the UPA government's strong retaliation.