A third special flight carrying 112 deportees from the US — including 31 Punjabis —will land at Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport on Sunday night.

The flight is expected to land at the airport at around 11.30 pm, official sources said.

On Saturday, a US military plane carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants, including 65 from Punjab, landed at the Amritsar airport at 11.32 pm.

According to officials, the deportees to land in Amritsar on Sunday comprise 31 persons from Punjab, 44 from Haryana, 33 from Gujarat, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Their removal is part of an ongoing crackdown by US immigration authorities on individuals who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had also slammed the Centre for choosing the Amritsar airport for the landing of the flights, saying it was a “deliberate attempt to defame the state” by giving the impression that all deportees belonged to Punjab.