New Delhi, Mar 27 (UNI) India registered its concerns with the US regarding the need to accommodate religious sensitivities and food preferences of Indian nationals who are being deported to India, parliament was told today.
In response, the US authorities have conveyed that deportees on the three chartered flights that arrived on February 5, 15 and 16 respectively were not instructed to remove any religious head coverings and that the deportees did not request any religious accommodation during the flights, aside from requesting for vegetarian meals.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) also conveyed that some of the detainees arrived at the US border without turbans, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh told the Rajya Sabha.